Ok .. CTRL+S is interesting - it does what I want. I am still baffled by developers' decision to change the default behavior. Thanks for pointing this out. I will see if I can live with it.
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se> wrote: > On Sat, 2015-09-26 at 17:17 +0300, / vt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I switched from Debian 7 to Debian 8. The nautilus file browser is > > now > > updated and I am particularly interested in removing one of its new > > features. The new 'search as you type' feature does not make sense to > > me. > > If I wanted to search for a file starting down from the current > > directory I > > would expect to hit CTRL+F or just use the terminal. And while > > browsing > > through the file system I would expect that I select files when I > > type on > > the keyboard, not search for them recursively. This is slow and > > breaks user > > experience. At least that's my point of view. So, do you know how I > > can get > > the "old" search back. I tried > > > > gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-interactive > > -search true > > > > > > but it seems that there is no such key in Debian - I read this in an > > Ubuntu > > forum. I got used to Nautilus so I would like to continue using it. > > But if > > there is no way to get the old search back I will switch to something > > orthodox that can do it. > > There is Ctrl + S that is quite handy. Otherwise you might try the > different forks of Nautilus provided by other desktop environments, > Nemo and Caja (I think?). > > > -- > Cheers, > Sven Arvidsson > http://www.whiz.se > PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 > > > >
