Small feature request

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Wed, 10 May 2006 18:26:34 +0200, Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > You can take a look at Verve. The tab auto-completion is very
> > simple. You just have to read all binaries in $PATH (and those from
> > the history) into a g_completion and cycle through it when TAB is
> > pressed. It's in verve-plugin/trunk/panel-plugin/verve-plugin.c in
> > the goodies SVN.
> 
> How about loading $PATH asynchronously? Problem I noticed with verve,
> when $PATH contains a folder on slow media (large NFS folder in this
> case) it blocks the UI for some time. You can have a look at the
> create launcher stuff in exo-desktop-item-edit/, which does the async
> loading for the completion model.

https://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=7454&group_id=910

Thanks for the hint. I'm going to have a look at it when I find the
time. 

- Jannis
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