25 years since Gnome was created.

10 years since the type-ahead find bug was opened on Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681871

(bug now moved to Gitlab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/1157)

7 years since a patch was provided to fix the issue.

Still waiting.

Note that this was a feature that Gnome used to have, but removed. Windows Explorer and macOS Finder both have the feature too.

fsh

This is not a "bug" or an "issue", it is a matter of taste. Some users prefer search, others prefer a simpler "jump to file" function. The maintainers have decided to implement the former. Arrogant comments like this really make me wonder why people are still putting work into open-source projects.

j-james

It's a bug when it stalls out your computer for 2-3 seconds because the file picker is doing a recursive search through all of your files.

Thankfully, patches that fix this (along with some other bugs and anti-features) are actively maintained by community members, despite being ignored by the GNOME project.

https://github.com/lah7/gtk3-classic