Bug#737317: Typeahead functionality missing (regression from 3.4)

[Pietro Battiston]

Package: nautilus
Version: 3.8.2-2
Severity: important

The problem with typeahead functionality disappearing from nautilus 3.6
onwards is well known.¹

I'm opening this bug not just to complain but because a patch is
available to
restore the old functionality, but it was not accepted upstream.² Could
it be
merged, waiting for upstream to find some better solution? This was the
choice
of Ubuntu, due to large demand from users (see the Launchpad bug): the
regression completely disrupts the workflow of anyone relying on
typeahead.

If the answer is "no, because we lack manpower", I can manage to look
at, apply
and test the patch. If the answer however is "we prefer not to diverge
from
upstream on such important issues", I will fallback on some other file
manager
waiting for upstream to implement this in a sane way (notice this is
being
considered for the future - see the first thread I linked - so this
would not
be a "permanent patch", although I found no reasonable estimates of when
the
future will happen).

So thank you for any feedback.

This is related to bug
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682071
- the patch would not fix it, but probably make it less problematic.

¹ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1164016
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2012-August/msg00002.html
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681871

² https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721968



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500,
'oldstable-updates'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.22-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.8.2-2
ii  gvfs                       1.16.3-1+b2
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.10.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.17-97
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libexempi3                 2.2.1-1
ii  libexif12                  0.6.21-1
ii  libgail-3-0                3.8.6-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.28.2-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.36.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-data            2.36.4-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-7       3.8.4-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.8.6-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.8.2-2
ii  libnotify4                 0.7.6-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libselinux1                2.2.2-1
ii  libtracker-sparql-0.16-0   0.16.2-1+b1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii  nautilus-data              3.8.2-2
ii  shared-mime-info           1.0-1+b1

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  eject                      2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.10.1-1
ii  gnome-sushi                3.8.1-1
ii  gvfs-backends              1.16.3-1+b2
ii  librsvg2-common            2.40.0-1

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  brasero                3.8.0-2
ii  eog                    3.10.1-1
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]    3.10.0-2
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]        1:3.7.4-1
ii  totem                  3.8.2-3
ii  tracker                0.16.2-1+b1
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]      2.0.8-1+b2
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]  2.0.8-1+b2
ii  xdg-user-dirs          0.15-1
ii  xpdf [pdf-viewer]      3.03-11

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