File selection by typing is buggy sometimes

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I can't confirm that there, I get a box in the bottom right corner while I type there and no yellow status tooltips as you do when selecting a folder

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660807

I reported a duplicate of this bug (bug 872090), with some steps to reproduce it. I think I'll add to this bug's description with more ways to cause it.

I have reported a duplicate bug too. (Bug #873678 ). I have confirmed on the bugzilla that it affects me too.

For me the search doesn't work normally inside my home folder as well.

This will seriously worsen my everyday routines.

Same here, frankly it's becoming VERY annoying.

Indeed RobinJ, this is incredibly irritating. Nice to see it's of 'low' importance.

Everybody please also comment here https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660807 .

Please refrain from commenting unless you have something constructive to add that might help fix the issue. If you feel the issue should be fixed, express this by confirming that it affects you at the top of the page. "Me too" comments only make it harder for those trying to fix the bug.

The bug got fixed upstream and will be fixed in an Oneiric update soon

Hello Andrew, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nautilus into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

The Oneiric-proposed update partly patches the issue, but a number of issues that have been complained about still remain.

The good:

The search box no longer disappears after the second character is entered.

The bad:

The search box still remains (for 5 seconds) after hitting enter and entering the directory searched for. To reproduce this, go to home folder and type 'Doc', then hit enter to enter the Documents directory. The search box still remains for around 5 seconds. This is particularly annoying if you want to enter a string of directories, having to wait 5 seconds after entering each one, before being able to use typeahead.

The ugly:

How does one clear an error typed in the search box? The usual method was to use the backspace key, but this now takes us to the parent directory. Reproduce by going to home folder, typing 'Dox' and trying to correct the 'x' type by hitting backspace.

The search box doesn't always clear its contents upon disappearing/reappearing. I haven't found a way to specifically reproduce this yet, but it's happening almost randomly (or so it would appear). The box has disappeared and, upon reappearing, there's sometimes the contents of the last search remaining in there - and you can't use backspace to clear it because of the above problem.

which package was updated? The bug is always present after apt-get upgrade.

did you restart your session after updating?

Zach are you sure you restarted after testing. I too have been experiencing these problems however they all disappeared after applying the updates. I also can not reproduce your examples.

I updated Nautilus from proposed and the restarted my laptop. The situation has improved but there are remaining issues.

I am experiencing similar ones to Zach, that is:

- The search box still remains (for 5 seconds) after hitting enter and entering the directory searched for. Better than before, at least I can search.
- No way to clear the search box: backspace key takes us to the parent directory. In the previous version the searchbox (when it remained open...) sometimes had the focus and I was able to remove characters, but sometimes the backspace took me to the parent dir.
- The search box doesn't always clear its contents upon disappearing/reappearing. If I press Esc or let it disappear the content is sometimes still there as soon as I start typing.

I am experiencing this bug in Ubuntu 11.10 after i enabled the proposed updates and updated all the nautilus packages (nautilus, nautilus-data...etc). Nothing is fixed. I re-started my computer (A few times) and the bug still there.

I cannot search (At all) using typeahead in nautilus. Terminal output and ~/.xsession-errors report nothing.

Please fix ASAP (This bug is extremely detrimental to how i navigate in my OS).

Thank you.

I should add (I am using Gnome 3 / Gnome-Shell).

One last thing:

I had this bug since i upgraded to 11.10 and Gnome 3 / Gnome shell. Tried all the fixes in the internet. Nothing seems to work (including this one).

I made 3 posts in a row because there is no edit function in here. (Sorry)

Fix does not work.

I can also confirm the fix doesn't work for my other computer. The differences between this one and the one which has no issues is that the one which works is in a VM and was a fresh install. The computer with issues with the patch is not in a vm and was upgraded from an install of 10.04. Both computers are using the AMD64 release.

This actually now works for me and fixed typeahead search so long as the statusbar is up. It's a bit dodgy without the status bar.

I did:

- sudo apt-get install -t oneiric-proposed nautilus
- logout/login

I tried starting in ~ and navigated to ~/Desktop/data/projects

I can now do so by typing "De<CR>...Pause ca.3-4 seconds...da<CR>.... Pause ca.3-4 seconds....pro<CR>" which was not possible before the fix.

But the need to pause is very annoying. Before the bug appeared, I could execute the full procedure in far less than 1 second.

During the pause the search-box is still visible with the old content. It does not close and it does not clear after the directory change. After the pause the searchbox will vanish, and after a keystroke it will reappear containing only the key from the keystroke.

I do not experience that enabling/disabling the statusbar influences things.

I'm using a x64 machine that has been upgraded from 10.04, btw.

Ok, if it's not perfect could you open a new bug about the new issue?

This bug specifically does not seem to be fixed for anyone using 64bit version of ubuntu 11.10 that have upgraded from 10.04 or 10.10 to 11.04 and then 11.10

So are you requesting that we open a new bug anyways?

The fix there is a code fix which is neither upgrade or architecture specific, you might have a different issue so yes open a new bug

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu1

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nautilus (1:3.2.1-0ubuntu1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Consolidate typeahead find entry for icon view (LP: #857710)
    - Fix a crasher when middle-clicking empty space in the places sidebar
    - Fix a crasher when trying to delete files from the tree sidebar
      (LP: #830185, #845408)
    - Fix a crasher when ejecting a removable device under some circumstances
    - Fix a crasher when trying to activate the previewer in a list view
      with no selection
    - Fix a crasher when symbolic icon theme is not available
    - Plug some memory leaks
    - Fix the build when Tracker FTS is enabled
  * Remove some cherry-picked patches:
    - git_handle_missing_icon.patch, git_gsettings_signals.patch,
      git_no_typeahead_timeout_segfault.patch,
      git_dont_preview_empty_selection.patch, git_correct_signal_handling.patch
      git_no_signal_order_assert.patch, git_slot_closing.patch,
      git_close_pane_cleaning.patch
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:52:20 +0200

To those that are still experiencing this bug (as I am), I filed a new bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/879456

It's an improvement, not a regression, so I move the current SRU to -updates, but reopen the bug.

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu1

---------------
nautilus (1:3.2.1-0ubuntu1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Consolidate typeahead find entry for icon view (LP: #857710)
    - Fix a crasher when middle-clicking empty space in the places sidebar
    - Fix a crasher when trying to delete files from the tree sidebar
      (LP: #830185, #845408)
    - Fix a crasher when ejecting a removable device under some circumstances
    - Fix a crasher when trying to activate the previewer in a list view
      with no selection
    - Fix a crasher when symbolic icon theme is not available
    - Plug some memory leaks
    - Fix the build when Tracker FTS is enabled
  * Remove some cherry-picked patches:
    - git_handle_missing_icon.patch, git_gsettings_signals.patch,
      git_no_typeahead_timeout_segfault.patch,
      git_dont_preview_empty_selection.patch, git_correct_signal_handling.patch
      git_no_signal_order_assert.patch, git_slot_closing.patch,
      git_close_pane_cleaning.patch
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:52:20 +0200

there is already bug #879456 about the new issues, no need to reopen this one