[Reboot] Autocompletion UX on phone needs improvement

Bug #1396944 reported by cm-t 🦄🏂🌈🎵
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Ubuntu Terminal App
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Bug Description

Hi,

When using the terminal in a phone facto, there are 2 main bad issue:

 * typing is not as productive than hardware keybaord, so as user, all things are good to reduce the number of (software) key pushed needed.

 * the current design force the user to swap panel to panel everytimes (panel Fx to panel arrow, etc)

The tab key is often used to find autocompletion. Because we change panel of button often, we might do more action to do an autocompletion that we would need to finish the string.

I would love to see an integration of this by UX more than the only TAB button(could be a horizontal scroll, could be a push to the suggestion of the software keyboard, could be a layout keyboad with more keys like tab, ...)

Tags: phone reboot
description: updated
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Kill Animals (kill-animals) wrote :

Can you just confirm; you would like to see a horizontal scroll to simulate a tab? If so; could you specify whether it should be left or right, or both?

Changed in ubuntu-terminal-app:
status: New → Incomplete
summary: - Autocompletion UX improvment on phone
+ [Reboot] Autocompletion UX on phone needs improvement
tags: added: reboot
Revision history for this message
Filippo Scognamiglio (flscogna) wrote :

Hi everyone, tab completion is already available. You just need to click one time on the terminal widget to trigger it. I understand that it's a little bit difficult to discover (we are probably going to have a small tutorial/presentation when the terminal is firstly launched), but is probably one of the fastest gestures. I personally don't like moving it to a left swipe: it's probably slower and we can't assign a "opposite" swipe right.

Changed in ubuntu-terminal-app:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
information type: Public → Private
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
information type: Private → Public
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