Unfortunately it seems that it's less a question of sense but stubbornness. Immediately after the changes were merged, they came up with the "Find in view is broken issue": https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679900
natermer left a long and very biased comment, indicating that Gnome won't return to the type ahead functionality. Not sure how deep he's involved into developement: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680118#c63 It might be worth a try to directly contact the responsible devs and have a polite discussion wether this bug was marked "invalid" on a technical and comprehensible reason, considering design and consistency being a bad tradeoff for usability and freedom of choice. If Gnome then still persist on the Apple pathway, how are the chances of getting a type ahead plugin working? ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #679900 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679900 -- 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: Invalid Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged 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
