Improving the tab completion UI/design

IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/js/completer.js

@@ -194,12 +194,12 @@ var IPython = (function (IPython) {
         this.complete.attr('id', 'complete');
 
         this.sel = $('<select style="width: auto"/>').attr('multiple', 'true').attr('size', Math.min(10, this.raw_result.length));
-        var pos = this.editor.cursorCoords();
-
-        // TODO: I propose to remove enough horizontal pixel
-        // to align the text later
-        this.complete.css('left', pos.left + 'px');
-        this.complete.css('top', pos.bottom + 'px');
+        //var pos = this.editor.cursorCoords();
+		var cur = this.editor.getCursor();
+		cur.ch = cur.ch-matched_text.length;
+		var pos = this.editor.cursorCoords(cur);
+        this.complete.css('left', pos.left-3 + 'px');
+        this.complete.css('top', pos.bottom+1 + 'px');
         this.complete.append(this.sel);
 
         $('body').append(this.complete);

IPython/frontend/html/notebook/static/less/notebook.less

@@ -408,6 +408,11 @@ div.text_cell_render {
     z-index: 10;
     overflow: hidden;
     border: 1px solid @border_color;
+	.corner-all;
+	.box-shadow(0 5px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.2));
+    // -moz-box-shadow:    0px 6px 10px -1px #adadad;
+    // -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 6px 10px -1px #adadad;
+    // box-shadow:         0px 6px 10px -1px #adadad;
 }
 
 .completions select {
@@ -418,28 +423,13 @@ div.text_cell_render {
     margin: 0px;
     overflow: auto;
     font-family: monospace;
+	font-size: 110%;
+    color: @fontBaseColor;
 }
 
 option.context {
   background-color: #DEF7FF;
 }
-option.introspection {
-  background-color: #EBF4EB;
-}
-
-/*fixed part of the completion*/
-.completions p b {
-    font-weight:bold;
-}
-
-.completions p {
-    background: #DDF;
-    /*outline: none;
-    padding: 0px;*/
-    border-bottom: black solid 1px;
-    padding: 1px;
-    font-family: monospace;
-}
 
 pre.dialog {
     background-color: @cell_background;