Hi all, I also just migrated 1 or 2 months ago to 17.10 (because of EOL) and it's horrible. I'm using Ubuntu mainly for work, so this change impacts my workflow quite heavily. Of course privately too. If you don't change the default behaviour, then you will face freezes. Most of my folders contain 100 and more subfolders and in some of them there are thousands of files. Many projects like those of Android Studio etc. contain ten-thousands of files. Just press a key by accident and nautilus freezes for 10 minutes and longer.
To prevent that one has to switch of recursive search and full text search. By the heavens! This can't be the default behaviour!!! With the old behaviour, you can jump to where ever you need to. If all folders have a unique first letter, then navigation is done with one key press. Now, you still need to navigate through the results. Come on guys, "efficiency" is something different! This works even in Windows, why not in Nautilus? Btw.: I just tested the live CD of 18.04. The issue is not fixed. Just having the option to choose the behaviour would be fine. No need to abandon one for the other. -- 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/1666681 Title: Restore interactive_search.patch (type-ahead search) Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: 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. (LP: #1635988) 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. The current Nautilus 3.24 packaging is in the GNOME3 Staging PPA with this patch now disabled. https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3-staging/+packages?field.series_filter=zesty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1666681/+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
