This is an upstream GNOME bug (though you might want to make the case that Ubuntu should deviate from the default GNOME behaviour for this issue, in which case please open a new bug since I don't think standard practice is to re-open old bugs like this when it has been fixed in an Ubuntu release? I think you could reasonably tag the new bug as a regression. If you do make a new bug for this issue in newer Ubuntu releases then please link to it from here), please +1 (use the thumbs up button on the original Issue and comments that you agree with, don't comment a +1) the following issues to indicate your support for a restoration of type-ahead. On unlocked Issues you can also comment specific use-cases which a lack of type-ahead breaks and which the optimizations mentioned in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/246 and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/247 don't fix (if you think those optimizations would help your use-case then please +1 them). Specific use-cases where you absolutely NEED type-ahead search may change the developers' minds, if you don't have specific use-cases then just +1 comments on GNOME GitLab that you agree with, but we're unlikely to see much change in that case, we NEED specific use-cases: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/8 (unlocked) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/244 (locked) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/466 (unlocked) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/590 (unlocked)
-- 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/1164016 Title: restore type-ahead find Status in Nautilus: Expired Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-settings package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: GNOME removed type-ahead find in Nautilus 3.6, not without controversy: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus- list/2012-August/msg00002.html Now when you type in a Nautilus window, Nautilus immediately performs a search in the current directory and all its subdirectories. I personally find this annoying. If I want to search, I'll click the search icon. Often I'm looking at a long directory listing and simply want to jump to a certain point in it, and type-ahead find works great for that. Would Ubuntu consider patching type-ahead find back in? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1164016/+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
