Comment 43 for bug 1164016

I'm interested in getting this resolved, and I might even be willing to learn the innards of Nautilus just to fix this, but it's unclear what the impact would be even if I did. It seems that upstream made an immovable "design" decision to blaze ahead with the type-to-search misfeature and that nothing users say/do will change that.

So, are you proposing that Ubuntu will maintain a fork (or a forked patch or two) for Nautilus? Is that a reasonable goal? If we develop a simple enough fix, is it likely Ubuntu will carry it separate from upstream GNOME/Nautilus?