According to Carlos Soriano from the Nautilus team this was broken be the Ubuntu patches.
When can we expect a fix? Thank you! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783364 Title: Preference 'recursive-search' is ignored when set to 'never' Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Steps to reproduce: --- 1. Run gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences recursive-search 'never' 2. Restart Nautilus 3. Search within Nautilus Current behavior --- Even after setting recursive-search to 'never' the search is still executed recursive. Expected behavior --- After setting recursive-search to 'never' the search should be not recursive anymore (only the current folder should be searched). Reproducible in: --- Ubuntu 18.04 with Nautilus 3.26.3-0ubuntu4 Releated upstream bugs: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/547 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/520 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1783364/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp