Comment 4 for bug 173950

So Colin, what you are saying is that this is GTK behavior, and it's not easy to change, but by changing the way ubiquity interacts with GTK we can make a work around. What I don't understand is that if I have a long list of files displayed in Nautilus and I quickly type in a few characters, the selection highlight always goes to the first letter typed. Regardless of how quickly I type, the first letter, say "F" will tag a file beginning with F. If I type "F (delay) r" then it will not jump to a file beginning with "r". This is a common problem with cell phone interfaces when searching for a contact.

The highlight selection process that works in Nautilus must be different than the highlight keyboard-language selection process in ubiquity.