Navigating city menu with keyboard is unavoidably slow
Bug #242173 reported by
Rüdiger Sonderfeld
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #59381: Comboboxes do not facilitate keyboard navigation.
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
During the installation you can select the city your computer is stationed in. This is good. But the way to select the City sucks. You have to scroll through a very long list of Cities sorted by continent.
It would be great if this could be improved. Maybe you could add an input-field with autocompletion and/or you could select the country, too and thus narrowing down the list of Cities.
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I think the City menu should be subject to normal keyboard navigation for menus, where typing the first few letters highlights (if open) or selects (if closed) the item alphabetically closest to those letters. For example, with the "Europe" region selected, typing "gih" in the City menu should highlight Gibraltar. (I'm surprised this doesn't seem to be built in to GTK option menus, but the "Fonts for:" menu in Firefox's advanced font preferences shows similar behavior.)