To add my voice to this bug, I installed 13.04 today, on my work computer (previously Windows 7 only), to enable me to use a variety of bash scripts to process a large number of files on an external ext3 drive. At home I have 12.10 installed.
The files are images, several thousand per folder, stored in dated folders (such as 11-04-23-country_location). Now I know, for example, that I was in Belgium in May 2005, so I type '05-05' and a folder NEAR the one I want was previously highlighted, allowing me to quickly and easily find the correct folder. A related task is to go to the next, and previous, folders. Both of these uses are broken with the new search set-up. The Gnome team's total brick-walling of the furious users should give pause for thought. I simply cannot believe they have shot themselves in the foot so categorically as to make the staple piece of software, that underpins their entire user interface, so crippled. This is a far more serious usability issue than anything thrown up with the migration to Unity. I would rate it, probably, as the highest, most disruptive user interface bug I have ever come across in Ubuntu (and I've been with you since Warty). The workaround linked by M4he above is good news, but the idea of having to install a patch to get basic file-browser functionality is insane. Even more insane than firing up Mac OSX and being faced with the abomination that is Finder. Sebastian, it's great news that Ubuntu are listening, and seeing this as an issue, and I hope a proper solution is forthcoming. At what point does a frankly bizarre upstream user interface decision like this become priority #1 at Canonical? When it begins to compromise the very good work being done with Unity? When does it become worth moving a developer from Unity onto an issue like this? -- 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
