GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 170352
Improve typeahead matching algorithm
Last modified: 2012-08-14 23:14:26 UTC
Instead of just left to right, make it more like Opera's or Mozilla's. PS: I'm not talking about the the search feature, I'm talkig about the new find-as-you-type feature that is similar ot Mozilla's.
what do you mean ? you want to display a bar with some buttons for the search direction ? are you using the list or icon view ?
You know the find as you type thing, when you just start typing whatever in nautilus and then it finds it, it only looks through the 1st words instead of throughout..for example I typed "foo" then "loofoo" wouldn't be found, but it should be.
reopening
Recently there was a fruitful discussion on this issue on nautilus-list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2006-February/msg00020.html Milestoning to 2.16.
*** Bug 301689 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 122327 [details] [review] Updated patch This is the patch that I posted here[1], but updated to nautilus trunk. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2006-February/msg00020.html
Unsetting 2.16 target and changing fields, let's see if we can get this in for 2.26 :)
Created attachment 122484 [details] screencast
I've made a screencast for people that can't test the patch. It uses two files "aimages.txt" and "images.zip" to show how icon view first matches at start of the word, and if that fails it matchs at any part of the word. In list view it only matches at any part of the word, because of limitation of the builtin gtktreeview typeahead, but I'll try to implement the same behaviour and make a patch for GtkTreeView.
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