@Daniel: Thanks for the additional hints. Actually I found an easier way to build from your branch:
$ dh_autoreconf $ ./configure --disable-tracker $ make That avoids the zeitgeist.h and gtk-doc errors, and allows me to simply 'make install' without having to generate a Debian package. So great - I was able to try out your changes. This looks quite promising. A few issues: - It looks like you branched from lp:ubuntu/saucy/nautilus, but I think you should branch from the newer lp:ubuntu/trusty/nautilus: https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/nautilus/trusty - Type a few characters of a filename, then click on a different file. The text box with the characters you typed remains open. Instead, it should vanish, just like in Nautilus 3.4. - Type a few characters of a filename, then move the Nautilus window. The text box with the characters you typed remains open, and will not move with the window. Instead, it should vanish in this situation, just like in Nautilus 3.4. - Select the first file in a directory, press the down arrow once, then type the first character of a filename. Notice that a secondary selection rectangle remains around the previously selected file. If you press Escape to exit the search, the secondary selection remains, and if you then press the down arrow Nautilus navigates to the file following it. Instead, as soon as the search begins the secondary selection should vanish, just like in Nautilus 3.4. - When I select any file or directory in Nautilus, a yellow tooltip-like rectangle appears in the lower right of the window with text descibing my selection, such as "scout.png" selected (969.6 kB) With your changes, the characters you type appear in a text box on top of this rectangle, which doesn't look great. In Nautilus 3.4, this text box appeared just below the Nautilus window when possible, which looked better. -- 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
