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Auto-Type global shortcut popup window should be searchable #2944

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@hifi

Summary

The current popup window is a list which you can browse through with arrow keys but at least on Linux you can't even start typing the entry name to move the selection around without first clicking on the window itself (possible separate focus issue).

Desired Behavior

Ideally the list should be quickly filterable by starting to type something that would appear in an input field which would narrow down the list as you type using fuzzy search. Up and down arrow keys should always move the selection in the list itself and return should always select the highlighted entry like before.

Possibly a global setting could be added to always show the window even when no matches are found so you could quickly filter through all your entries that have Auto-Type enabled. I bet this would be useful for a lot of people.

Possible Solution

Add input field and some Qt signal magic.

Context

When you have a lot of entries with similar title matches the list of possible matches can get fairly long and becomes a burden to manually search through.

Additionally sometimes you just can't get a good title match and need to use generic one like "Terminal" but you would be very fast to type your entry name on-the-fly if you had the possibility.

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