Add option to disable search completions

[mixxxbot]

Reported by: fwcd
Date: 2022-01-04T21:42:30Z
Status: Confirmed
Importance: Low
Launchpad Issue: lp1956392
Tags: gui, library

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It would be nice to have a setting for disabling the completions in the library search bar.

Version: 2.4.0-alpha-pre
Revision: bf1eef2

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2022-01-04T22:33:08Z

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This sounds for like a workaround for a bug.

For be the completion kicks in to fast. Lets say I have searched for ABBA, next time I search for A, it is auto completed to ABBA and immediately applied. This means if I want to search for All tracks with A, I need to press del (which is not obvious to undo outo completion)

I like to have it more like in the browser address bar, where Enter is required to go to the auto completed Address. The "search as you type" should only be done for actual entered characters.

Will this solve your issue as well?

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: fwcd
Date: 2022-01-04T22:49:22Z

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Yes, that is pretty much my use case too, but I would still appreciate the option to turn it off completely (just like most browsers support disabling various kinds of completions, private browsing etc.)

Ideally, the user could both hide/disable the completions in the settings and have some option to clear the history.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: ronso0
Date: 2022-01-04T23:12:34Z

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I tested the auto-complete popup in #4505 and it does indeed improve the workflow. Right now it's styled by the system theme which is absolutey confusing. As soon as I work out how to use a dedicated QStyleDelegate we can add it back.

An option in Preferences > Library to turn off auto-completion entirely is also no big deal IMO (default: on), as well as a Clear History button

Search queries can already be removed one by one from the popup with Backspace and Del in 2.4 alpha.

[ronso0]

Fixed by #10942