> In reality, > recursive search is useful, and I want to use it, but it's different to > typeahead
Exactly, they are two completely different, unrelated things, and if the Nautilus devs can't understand something as elementary as that, Ubuntu shouldn't be using software developed by those people as the default file explorer. This issue is just one example; nautilus developers have taken quite a few "design decisions" that are - ahem - let's say contrary to common sense, degrading usability rather than improve things. Keeping Nautilus as the file explorer means Ubuntu will have to keep struggling with this sort of things and maintaining patches like this one. Of course, if there's no better alternative out there (I find it hard to believe that such a shitty file manager is the best available, but I don't know, it might be), then it'll have to be this. > I do think things will eventually go back this way > (...) I do think Nautilus can satisfy everyone's preferences here How long do we have to wait for them to recapacitate and revert breaking stuff that had been designed correctly in the first place ages ago? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-settings 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/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
