GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 701133
Improve search as you type / remove recursive search / don't mess up with folder context
Last modified: 2013-05-30 12:51:36 UTC
At least since 3.8.1 nautilus has a search as you type features which searches recursively. When I am in a folder and start typing, I expect a search in the *current* set of files which I see at this moment. Instead current nautilus also looks in all subdirectories. I would expect recursive search in another dialogue or at least if I click a special "recursive-checkbox" but not *every time*. The absolute minimum would be to have the possibility to disable recursion in the settings. The recursive search is, at least in my cases, not intended in this way. What I expect is: the first file that match my string will be highlighted and I can switch somehow betweet the matching files. Additionally it would be very nice when the files that don't match wouldn't disappear while I am still in the folder context (and the other files aren't deleted anyhow). If you want a visual highlight that the other files aren't relevant: "disable" them by removing saturation from the icons and giving them some kind of transparency. But keep the not matching files still visible and keep the possibility to move a marked file into a subfolder of the current folder (even when this is "disabled"). I'm using ubuntu 13.04 with official gnome ppa so my nautilus version is 3.8.1-0ubuntu1~raring1.
(In reply to comment #0) > I would expect recursive search in another dialogue or at least if I click a > special "recursive-checkbox" but not *every time*. The absolute minimum would > be to have the possibility to disable recursion in the settings. Concerns with recursive VS non-recursive are being discussed in bug 687002. > What I expect is: the first file that match my string will be highlighted and I > can switch somehow betweet the matching files. > > Additionally it would be very nice when the files that don't match wouldn't > disappear while I am still in the folder context (and the other files aren't > deleted anyhow). If you want a visual highlight that the other files aren't > relevant: "disable" them by removing saturation from the icons and giving them > some kind of transparency. > But keep the not matching files still visible and keep the possibility to move > a marked file into a subfolder of the current folder (even when this is > "disabled"). What you describe is "find in this view" instead of "search", if I understand it correctly. This is being considered, see bug 681871. Should this report be marked as a duplicate of one of these or do you have some specific issue not covered by either of them?
Thank you very much for responding this fast. I marked the bug as duplicate now. Everything is fine while I decided to stop using nautilus now. ;) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 687002 ***