Search in Nautilus does not work correctly when called from other apps

[Rainer Rohde]

When Nautilus is called from another app, e.g., Thunderbird > Attach File to email (or Gedit > Save file) the search (via the magnifying glass icon in the top right) only allows for 1 character to be entered, and then jumps to the bottom right and subsequent characters appear there.

This behavior, of course, messes up the expected search results as the search is split into two fields/areas of the panel.

In contrast, when opening up a Nautilus browser panel directly, any search query entered from the magnifying glass icon stays in the text entry area as expected, and the search results work well.

The expectation is that when another app calls Nautilus, the search function works as if it does when working directly out of Nautilus.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.26.4-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Nov 13 13:05:42 2018
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'show-delete-permanently' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'default-folder-viewer' b"'list-view'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1165x787+417+87'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.compression' b'default-compression-format' b"'7z'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where', 'date_modified', 'date_modified_with_time', 'date_accessed', 'recency']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-27 (17 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_nautilus: dropbox 2015.10.28

[Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde)]

I've attached this screencast to help visualize this behavior.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's rather an issue with the GTK filechooser than with nautilus

[Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde)]

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I actually went to the #Ubuntu IRC chat and asked - if called by an app, is the panel still nautilus, and I was told "yes", hence I filed the bug report against it. Never knew that this "GTK filechooser" is a different animal.

Anything else I need to do/provide to this ticket?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.