"Michael Lotz"<mmlr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
While I like the feature in general, I think it's a) too
unobstrusive
when used, and b) doesn't work in icon mode which both IMO doesn't
make it viable to enable it by default yet.
With a) you mean that it's not obivous enough that a window is showing
a filtered list? As in it'd need to change the background color to
indicate that?
Different background color would be one way; I would prefer (which
could be additional, though) if what I am currently typing is more
visible, maybe open an overlay in on corner of the window that contains
the text in full size, and is more prominently visible (similar to how
Nautilus does it -- visually, functionally, it's completely useless
there).
As for b) I'm not sure how you'd envision it to work in icon mode.
But
right now it'll just gracefully fall back to the typeahead selection
(the current default) in icon mode, so I don't really see a problem
with that.
If you'd seen my desktop, you would know how I meant it ;-)
An overlay would work nicely in icon mode as well, and the icons could
either be removed, or grayed out (as they don't need to free up any
space).
