Public bug reported:
Nautilus dropped the popular type-ahead search feature years ago. Ubuntu
has been carrying a patch to revert that change. See bug 1164016 for the
original LP bug and patch proposal.
Nautilus is now under very active development. During the 3.22 cycle,
that patch needed to be rebased. I tried to do it and what I came up
with caused a crash (it didn't really crash for me, but ricotz and some
others experienced it) and the first letter typed activated type-ahead
search but the first letter was dropped. In other words, you would need
to type "ddow" to activate the Downloads folder instead of just "dow"
like in previous releases.
I did that rebase in October 2016 and no one has stepped up then to
improve the patch.
The Nautilus maintainer csoriano has said that the slots and views
changed significantly during 3.22 and will likely be refactored more in
the future.
If there's no one available to maintain the patch, unfortunately, we'll
eventually have to drop the patch to not be stuck on an ancient version
of Nautilus.
I am proposing that we do this at the start of the 17.10 development
cycle. This gives 6 months for a developer to step up and try to fix the
patch and 12 months before 18.04 LTS.
Other Items
===========
- For better performance with the built-in search, we need to reconsider
avoiding tracker in Unity (LP: #1666676)
- There is an option in Preferences for users to disable searching in
subfolders. I don't think we want to do that by default but maybe it can
help some people.
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Nautilus dropped the popular type-ahead search feature years ago. Ubuntu
has been carrying a patch to revert that change. See bug 1164016 for the
original LP bug and patch proposal.
Nautilus is now under very active development. During the 3.22 cycle,
that patch needed to be rebased. I tried to do it and what I came up
with caused a crash (it didn't really crash for me, but ricotz and some
others experienced it) and the first letter typed activated type-ahead
search but the first letter was dropped. In other words, you would need
to type "ddow" to activate the Downloads folder instead of just "dow"
like in previous releases.
I did that rebase in October 2016 and no one has stepped up then to
improve the patch.
The Nautilus maintainer csoriano has said that the slots and views
changed significantly during 3.22 and will likely be refactored more in
the future.
If there's no one available to maintain the patch, unfortunately, we'll
eventually have to drop the patch to not be stuck on an ancient version
of Nautilus.
I am proposing that we do this at the start of the 17.10 development
cycle. This gives 6 months for a developer to step up and try to fix the
patch and 12 months before 18.04 LTS.
+
+
+ Other Items
+ ===========
+ - For better performance with the built-in search, we need to reconsider
avoiding tracker in Unity (LP: #1666676)
+
+ - There is an option in Preferences for users to disable searching in
+ subfolders. I don't think we want to do that by default but maybe it can
+ help some people.
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Drop interactive_search.patch (type-ahead search)
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