The typeahead flame war is an interesting case where "user stories" clash with users -- both sides are ultimately talking past one another. The user story is "users can type the name of the file/folder they want and hit enter to navigate to it" which the current implementation satisfies. But the people in the thread want one specific implementation which, while a totally valid ask, has the exact same user story as full search. This way of looking at design makes "how the software feels" really hard to quantify and justify as a deficiency. Although, for me, I think after getting used to Crtl-P, FZF, VSCode, Telescope in Neovim and "Ctrl-K" in lots of apps I'm with GNOME devs on this one and that faster full search should be the end goal but that's just like my opinion man.
Sure, and so why not put that recursive search behind ctrl-p? I'd certainly use it.
But as someone who has grown up with computers, it's quite aggravating to not be able to "pu<enter>src<enter>mod<enter>vi<enter>in"
Sure, it's more intuitive to do that in the terminal, but sometimes being able to quickly drill down and THEN be able to inspect the folder visually, is very helpful.
I think my main issue is that GNOME's search is dog slow. If Nautilus had the speed of FZF I don't think you would miss it but I'm open to being wrong. You would just type pusrmovi<enter> to jump to the folder or just viind<enter> to go to the file.
Ah, interesting... yes, the search is indeed dog-slow. If it's a filename match, it comes up fairly quickly because it's been indexed, but if I pass in a path, or parts of one, then it doesn't come up with anything at all.
The dev's response to the "flame war" was the primary reason I switched full time to Nemo and never went back.
The user experiences are very different between the two features and trying to conflate them is a mistake in my opinion. since I use typehead to navigate the file manager quickly without touching the mouse, replacing it with a very slow recursive search made nautilus unusable to me. Even if the search was very fast, though, it would still be a good search but a bad navigation tool.
Luckily there are alternatives and Nemo is a great file manager.
> But I want to use the current folder as a namespace limiter :(
And it is! The files in the current folder _always_ sort to the top. The only real loss between this and the previous behaviour is that the view changes slightly, so the other (not matching) files disappear. But even the selection sticks, so if you hit Escape you can see the matching file in context.
