[PATCH setup] (Usability improvement) Implement half-second wait for user to finish typing before searching packages

[Jon Turney]

On 02/08/2016 11:01, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 02.08.2016 um 11:22 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>> On Aug  1 23:17, Ronald Ramos wrote:
>> Neat!  Applied.  Personally I would rather see a shorter timeout like,
>> say, 300ms, but I guess we shouldn't take for granted that everybody is
>> typing fast.  Even with 500ms timeout it's now much more convenient than
>> the old "search after each keypress" method.
> I agree with Corinna. Great enhancement, but 300ms should be a good
> trade-off for unpatient people...

For impatient people, perhaps it would be better to have "enter" mean "I 
have finished typing, do the search now", rather than trying to come
up with a timeout which suits everyone.

This might be as straightforward as giving the search text entry box the 
multiline style, so it can receive enter, rather than it going to the 
dialogs default button (next), but probably involves a bit more fiddling...