[Blink] contact search selection

[Dan Pascu]

On 6 Apr 2010, at 13:01, Andreas Sikkema wrote:

>> While it sounds like a useful feature it also has issues. Imagine I
>> type ibm, it finds the 1800ibmserv entry and then I type Enter. With
>> what you propose it would call the entry that was found. However if
>> this time I intended to call just sip:ibm at mysipserver.com and I just
>> typed ibm knowing that it will automatically add the domain, it will
>> not work and there is no way to dial anything that is a substring of
>> an existing contact, as it will dial that contact instead. The only
>> way around this is to type the whole SIP URI in order to avoid the
>> other contact to be matched by the search or to add it as a contact,
>> which can be annoying if you only need to dial it once.
>
> You will need to build something like the "Awesome bar" in Firefox  
> (that's
> the address bar to normal people). Where it searches in bookmarks and
> history and probably some other sources of data.

That would also require you to type Tab or Up/Down in order to select  
an entry from the ones found and then press Enter. We currently  
already have that behavior. Type search text, press Tab then Up/Down  
to select one item and then press enter to dial it.

The original poster wants a way to directly press Enter in the search  
box and dial the item found. That has issues as I said with dialing  
any substring of the found item(s).

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Dan