Indeed, that seems fixed in the current Ubuntu serie but buggy in bionic, potentially something we want to fix in a SRU
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- 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/1816539 Title: Searching by file type doesn't work Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: When I click on searching in nautilus a down arrow appears on the right (next to the input field). If I click on this arrow, a pop up menu appears with "When" and "What" titles. Inside "What" I can choose file types. Choosing a certain file type nothing happens, nautilus shows the hits for every file type. This search option doesn't seem to work. (For "Full Text" see Bug #1767817) $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Release: 18.04 $ apt-cache policy nautilus nautilus: Installed: 1:3.26.4-0~ubuntu18.04.3 Candidate: 1:3.26.4-0~ubuntu18.04.3 Version table: *** 1:3.26.4-0~ubuntu18.04.3 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.26.3-0ubuntu4 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1816539/+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