Bug 156135

Summary:	Usability improvement to tag completion
Product:	[Unmaintained] quanta	Reporter:	Liam McDermott <liam>
Component:	general	Assignee:	András Manţia <amantia>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Liam McDermott 2008-01-18 19:25:53 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Problem:
Often content needs to be copied and pasted into Web pages from an external source, Word processor document, spreadsheet, e-mail etc. when inserting this sort of content the tag completion in Quanta goes from being helpful to extremely irritating.

Steps to reproduce:
 1. get some content from an external source, make sure it's split into paragraphs or needs to be converted into a HTML table/list;
 2. ensure tag completion is switched on, then copy and paste the content into a Quanta Web page document;
 3. try to add markup around the existing content;
 4. notice how--when it auto-completes--Quanta puts the tags where they shouldn't be;

Expected behaviour:
Instead of closing the tags immediately Quanta should wait until the user enters the </ characters before closing the tag automatically. This gives the maximum helpfulness, without user annoyance.

Comment 1 András Manţia 2008-09-25 20:50:43 UTC

Can you please give an example (where to paste and what to paste)? Would be much easier to track and fix the bug.

Comment 2 Liam McDermott 2008-09-29 14:18:48 UTC

What to paste: Imagine you had to convert the table in the file http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/corporate_tax/11_4_oct05.pdf to HTML (that's just a random table I found on the Internet, but is a good example).

Select and copy the table on the first page of that PDF to the clipboard.

Where to paste: open Quanta, and paste the copied table into the source editor.

Then start going through the table adding <td>s around the figures; this is where the tag completion in Quanta gets in the way. Notice that when inserting a <td> Quanta completes it immediately, making <td></td>100,884 for example. This means the user must cut and paste the closing tag after the figure, to make <td>100,884</td>.

The desired behaviour is for Quanta to *not complete immediately* but only complete when the user types "</".

Hope this makes sense!

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2015-10-10 08:40:43 UTC

Dear users,

the Quanta application ceased to exist over 5 years ago. For some of the use cases of Quanta there are nowadays KDevPlatform plugins available (like PHP/Python/... language support plugins).

Therefore the old Quanta bugs will now be closed, the Quanta bugzilla product is already closed for new reports.

Greetings
Christoph