Public bug reported:
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 amd64, Ubuntu 12.10 amd64, up-to-date Nautilus on each.
Reproduce:
Open directory with lots of subdirs (e.g. 'A...', ... , ''TRD001', 'TRD002',
'TRD003', ...), type first letter of target (e.g. 'T') to jump in that region,
then select it ('TRD003') with the mouse (single-click open) because that's
faster than typing it out or using the unintuitive up/down arrows (left/right
are reserved in this context), especially if you have either a trackpoint or
one hand on the mouse already.
Expected:
Nautilus should do the same af is it was typed out, then the Enter key was hit:
enter the directory and dismiss the search box.
Observed:
The search box in the bottom right corner stays with the letter 'T' typed, even
though we changed into the new subdirectory, making a follow-up type-ahead
awkward.
This has been handled correctly in the previous LTS release: using type-ahead,
then clicking anywhere inside the current directory (both _empty space between
icons_ and another dir/file) made the search box disappear.
The current behaviour is slowing down productivity with Nautilus, and since
most of the botched up Nautilus type-ahead behaviour in recent releases has
been corrected by now, I hope this one will get it's fix too.
Another application doing this correctly and intuitively is Firefox with
find-as-you-type turned on.
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Nautilus type-ahead plus mouse
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