GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 318324
cycle through files when pressing a letter
Last modified: 2012-08-16 02:19:51 UTC
Pressing letter "a" makes nautilus go to the first file in the list with that letter. Pressing again "a" should make it go to the next (cycle).
Thanks for your bug report! With the current implementation (HEAD), you'll have to press ctrl-g/ctrl-shift-g, or ctrl-up/down to browse results after pressing "a". Are you ok with that?
The keybindings are actually ctrl-g/ctrl-shift-g, resp. up/down.
The hordes of people migrating from Windows to Linux won't know that :) Would be best to make it work like in the initial request (how Windows explorer works). Also * the file names should be considered case insensitive in this case by Nautilus. * folders and files shouldn't be different in this selection (nautilus already works this way, please don't change) Please take into account that list of names folders/files depends to current sort (could be by size too, not only by filename) and view (list, icon...) Perhaps this should be implemented in GTK's tree object, not in Nautilus?
> The hordes of people migrating from Windows to Linux won't know that :) Many of them probably use(d) Firefox [and hopefully switched to Epihany :)]. > the file names should be considered case insensitive in this case by Nautilus. I agree.
> the file names should be considered case insensitive in this case by Nautilus. This is the case already, btw.
Besides what Christian says in comment 2 you can also use just UP or DOWN arrow key and mousewheel up/down to cycle next and previous match file. Although these keybindings are somewhat intuitive I wonder if adding a 'Next' and 'Previous' button next to the search entry would make this totally user friendly, especially if typeahead is expose to users through a menu item like the one I proposed on bug 328725 .
I can't remember how finding files in the folder was in late 2005 - did we have the little text entry at the corner? If not - is this bug still valid as you now see the text you enter (as in many other list in gnome)?
*** Bug 612675 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The duplicate bug reports that this is a significant a11y issue. A number of other GNOME interfaces (including the panel) use the desired kind of behaviour for a11y reasons.
This looks like a duplicate of Bug 317159
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