[OSM-talk] JOSM user interface

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Wed Oct 10 11:40:37 BST 2007


In message <100AFA34-A01A-42A9-88FB-F3CB7684BC8C at remote.org>
        Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

>>> Should we then, instead of making the auto-complete a user
>>> preference, automatically disable it when the "windows" look and feel
>>> is selected, and enable it otherwise? Or does that sound too much of
>>> a hack?
>>
>> What I would prefer, personally, is a dropdown completion list - like
>> the way it's done in browsers - rather than the autocomplete replacing
>> the current selection.
>
> Maybe the whole thing is just overkill, and instead of trying to  
> offer the most comfortable way of entering things for everybody we  
> should just revert to the simple text boxes we had a few months ago,  
> and promote tagging presets more?

Only if tagging presets are made a bit more functional...

I gave up on tagging presets very quickly and just typed in tags the
hard way so from my point of view autocompletion is a huge boon.

Tom

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