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#111
Originally Posted by evad View Post
Well, for one it's speed, for other it's a matter of personal preference. If I wanted google for "ebay motors", I'd probably type "go ebay motors" - but that's just me. Anyway, I have my own solution for prefixes (as you know), so I'm not that bothered about that, really. It just seemed a bit odd to me, as I'd rather like to have freedom in the actual length of the prefix.
I understand. This is a common problem with software development. Does a developer give the user free reign to do anything and possibly cause end-user confusion/unintended use, or do they put reasonable limits in place?

Sometimes it can be a fine line between satisfying reasonable usage scenarios and acting like the "all controlling" developer.
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#112
Originally Posted by BrentDC View Post
I have looked into adding a history (like the browser recently typed queries in the url bar), but there is no standard system in place to do it. Apparently the browser team wrote a custom UI widget, and it is not something I would/could do. If at a later point they add a widget like that to the Hildon framework, I'd do it, but right now it doesn't look very likely.
Making the bar itself isn't hard: I wrote this lame thing here that makes a URL entry bar (minus the window that comes up upon pressing the arrow) like how the browser does it: https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scm...as&view=markup

But what comes up when that arrow button is pressed is a little harder. From what I can tell, it's a GTK popup window with a HildonTouchSelector as its container. I did promise conny that I'd work on making a HildonFindToolbar that uses HeArrowedEntry + whatever the browser does for that window. Maybe it's time to get off my *** and actually do it...
 

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Originally Posted by qwerty12 View Post
Making the bar itself isn't hard: I wrote this lame thing here that makes a URL entry bar (minus the window that comes up upon pressing the arrow) like how the browser does it: https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scm...as&view=markup

But what comes up when that arrow button is pressed is a little harder. From what I can tell, it's a GTK popup window with a HildonTouchSelector as its container. I did promise conny that I'd work on making a HildonFindToolbar that uses HeArrowedEntry + whatever the browser does for that window. Maybe it's time to get off my *** and actually do it...
That's interesting. I hadn't thought that the widget used in the browser was just a entry with a button packed next to it. I thought it was something along the lines of a hildon.ComboboxEntry. The popup, itself, just seems to be a menu with a TouchSelector + ScrolledWindow in it. But again, I'm completely useless when it comes to knowing how to make something like this

Please let me know if you come up with anything cool (and easily translatable to python! ). I would very much appreciate it, as history support has been the last major "I-want-to-do-this-but-don't know-how" entry in my todo list for TouchSearch.
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#114
Originally Posted by BrentDC View Post
I understand. This is a common problem with software development. Does a developer give the user free reign to do anything and possibly cause end-user confusion/unintended use, or do they put reasonable limits in place?
I understand that too, however I don't understand why that limit is actually in place? :)
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Originally Posted by evad View Post
I understand that too, however I don't understand why that limit is actually in place?
Hmmph! OK, I'll bump the limit out to 4 chars in the next release (which, if no other major bugs are found, won't be until this summer, unfortunately).
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#116
Originally Posted by BrentDC View Post
Hmmph! OK, I'll bump the limit out to 4 chars in the next release (which, if no other major bugs are found, won't be until this summer, unfortunately).
I'd rather have no limit (or quite long one, like 8-10 chars), but... you're the boss ;) Don't worry about that too much, tough - I have my own solution for quick prefixes, anyway.
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#117
I have a quistion! if i put my one search in TouchSearch the picture does not come on the home screen, its just emty, but when i presse on it (to go for a search) it wil show! anny the same problem and anny solution to tis?

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#118
Great widget! Thx, but why aren't we allowed to edit the Google search machine?
 
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Originally Posted by Shark View Post
Great widget! Thx, but why aren't we allowed to edit the Google search machine?
I wrote this about Google being uneditable in another thread a while back. Note that this is being worked on and will most likely not be the case in future versions of TouchSearch.

Google is this way because it is the default search engine and is there when TouchSearch runs into problems. For example, any of the below would cause TouchSearch to automatically load Google:

1. Deletion of every other search engine
2. Default install state
3. Corrupted settings file
4. "Stale" settings file (program requires a newer version
5. Error in loading any of the other search engines including user-defined ones
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#120
Originally Posted by BrentDC View Post
I wrote this about Google being uneditable in another thread a while back. Note that this is being worked on and will most likely not be the case in future versions of TouchSearch.
I'm just interesting in changing google so that i don't get the ads everytime i search. Evtl. i want to get the normal google search page as on my pc.

Thx for the fast reply!

Last edited by Shark; 2010-06-27 at 22:40.
 
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