It's not even consistent within Nautilus itself - type-ahead works fine in a "pop up file browser" when saving a file from an application or downloading a file from a browser. It's only the fewer cases where you manually launch the file browser from the desktop that it behaves different for some reason.
It's always disappointing to see software developers of popular software get a bee in their bonnet over something like this, staunchly ignoring a widely used, simple feature simply because they themselves don't use it. I've seen this in the Atom Text editor too, where they closed the thread of 100's of posts asking for block select, with a dismissive "I don't think this thread is helping anyone anymore." So I switched to Sublime, which does have it. Type-ahead is in literally every other OS I've tried. Admittedly not many, but when that list involves nearly every release of Windows, Linux Mint, and Fedora, you really have to wonder why someone would choose to stick their fingers in their ears over this one - not even as an option, even somewhere buried away in a config - it's just plain disabled forever - but the functionality DOES exist in the system because it works in "popup file browsers". It's like giving the middle finger to people who regularly use this productivity time-saver. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1666681 Title: Restore interactive_search.patch (type-ahead search) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1666681/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
