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Bug 775297 - Typing in a window performs a recursive search rather than simply highlighting the file that best matches what you're typing
Typing in a window performs a recursive search rather than simply highlightin...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 680118
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Keyboardability
3.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-11-29 03:19 UTC by Nate Graham
Modified: 2017-04-30 22:52 UTC
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Description Nate Graham 2016-11-29 03:19:50 UTC 
This is a duplicate of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680118

I wish to register my dissatisfaction with the current design, which is surprising, confusing, and not what any other file manager does. GNOME already has a filesystem search built into Dash and a magnifying glass search button on Nautilus's toolbar that can easily accomodate this functionality, so I'm not sure why overloading the standard file selection type-ahead behavior is still necessary. Given tracker and how well GNOME's full text search works from the dash, it may be time to revisit this.
Comment 1 Carlos Soriano 2016-11-29 09:40:13 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 680118 ***