Bug 121979

Summary: search bar completion interferes with typing
Product: [Applications] konqueror Reporter: Luke <lcampagn>
Component: generalAssignee: Konqueror Bugs <konqueror-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Luke 2006-02-14 21:45:17 UTC 
Version:           3.5.1 (using KDE 3.5.1, Kubuntu Package 4:3.5.1-0ubuntu2 dapper)
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.15-14-686

When I type in the search box in konqueror, it automatically guesses the rest of my search and inserts more text into the input field. If I wasn't paying attention and hit enter just as it altered my search string, then I get a search that I didn't want. Furthermore, the input field is almost impossible to use if you are editing in the middle of the string, because every time it tries to complete your search, the cursor moves to the end of the string again. Irritating!

I posted this bug for konqueror 3.4, but it has gone unconfirmed since November, so I'm re-posting for 3.5.
Comment 1 Tommi Tervo 2006-02-14 22:10:17 UTC 
Reposting bugs is a wrong way to get it fixed. Disable autocompletion from search box by right click -> text completion -> none if you don't like it.
Comment 2 Hugo Costelha 2006-08-30 18:39:55 UTC 
Hi,

Nevertheless there is still some erratic behaviour in the search bar. If if it doesn't find anything to do the autocomplete with, the cursor keeps jumping to the end of whatever you have already written. This means that it is impossible to change the search string if your changes are not in the end of the string.
Comment 3 Gregor B. Rosenauer 2007-04-23 19:16:52 UTC 
Please reopen as this is IMO really a bug.
In similar scenarios in other areas of KDE (e.g. KNotes), autocompletion works the right way by *selecting* the autocompleted text sothat the user can quickly overwrite it if necessary.

The current solution renders this function almost useless as there is a race condition between the user and the computer, which is 100% a usability bug and should be addressed professionally.

Konqueror is the only application (even inside KDE) that handles autocompletion this way and this should IMO change for the better (99% of the other application designers cannot be wrong?)

Turning off autocomplete now, dark flash backs of MS Word keep coming up...