To be clear, the term "fork" usually refers to a split in development that no longer merges in changes from the other side, which is not what I'm proposing here. Instead, I'm hoping that if we had a patch to restore type-ahead find, Ubuntu would include and maintain it just as it already maintains various patches for other GNOME programs. The patch might not be trivial, but maybe it wouldn't be that hard to maintain once it's been written once.
Of course, I don't work for Ubuntu, so only they can say whether they would actually accept a patch like this. But in comment #22 above, Sebastien (who works for Canonical) wrote "for the record we do agree that this bug is annoying and would like to fix, we just need to deal with what we have". Given that, I'm hopeful that they would take a patch. -- 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 : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
