Comment 148 for bug 1164016

> In reality,
> recursive search is useful, and I want to use it, but it's different to
> typeahead

Exactly, they are two completely different, unrelated things, and if the Nautilus devs can't understand something as elementary as that, Ubuntu shouldn't be using software developed by those people as the default file explorer.

This issue is just one example; nautilus developers have taken quite a few "design decisions" that are - ahem - let's say contrary to common sense, degrading usability rather than improve things.

Keeping Nautilus as the file explorer means Ubuntu will have to keep struggling with this sort of things and maintaining patches like this one. Of course, if there's no better alternative out there (I find it hard to believe that such a shitty file manager is the best available, but I don't know, it might be), then it'll have to be this.

> I do think things will eventually go back this way
> (...) I do think Nautilus can satisfy everyone's preferences here

How long do we have to wait for them to recapacitate and revert breaking stuff that had been designed correctly in the first place ages ago?