Nautilus file selection by typing is buggy when there are a lot of files

[Mohammad Razavi]

Generally, in nautilus, you could select a file by typing its name. If you made a mistake typing, you could backspace in the search box and correct it. This works even if the filename contains the space character.

This bug only triggers when you are in a folder that contains a lot of files (actually there should be as mush file as it reaches the nautilus last row) .

In this case, you cannot type space character in the search box. Moreover you cannot correct your mistake by typing backspace, instead, typing backspace make nautilus goes one level up in filesystem hierarchy.

To reproduce this bug:

in the terminal:
$ mkdir ~/bug
$ cd ~/bug
$ for i in `seq 1 200`; do touch $i; done
$ xdg-open ~/bug

Now, select nautilus window and type for example "A <space> B". Then type <backspace>.

I tested this on several machines with oneiric (both clean install and upgraded version from natty) and I was able to reproduce this bug.

Bug #872090 , Bug #857710 and Bug #879456 are related but not quite the same.

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that seems quite similar to bug #879456, could you try the update and see if you still have issues with it?

[Mohammad Razavi (mrazavi)]

Yes! Thank you. I can confirm the new proposed nautilus package fixes this problem, too.
I had to test it before reporting this bug. This bug was really annoying.