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 Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1164016 Title: restore type-ahead find To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1164016/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
