I don't know how long it will take, but in the meantime Ubuntu could ship the patch maintained by the Arch community:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/nautilus-restore- typeahead.patch?h=nautilus-typeahead It looks like this patch is kept up to date pretty well. There is a similar patch for gtk3 to make the file chooser dialog have type-ahead. It's the best of both worlds, since you can still tap ctrl-f to search. Whilst it would be nice for the Nautilus devs to upstream the patch or for there to be a dialog about what kind of patch they might accept (if any), in the meantime distros can include the patch, there is little downside since the patch is maintained and not bit rotting. Canonical would not be committing themselves to maintaining it by including it. -- 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: Expired Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-settings package in Ubuntu: Fix Released 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
