14 DAY TRIAL // Ubuntu 14.04 LTS might get a cool new Nautilus-related feature, despite its being rejected in upstream GNOME.
If you ever performed searches in Nautilus, you might have noticed that, at some point in the last couple of years, that procedure has changed.
Before the change, when typing a letter in a directory, the search would jump straight to the first file that started with the letter. When typing the second one, the search would be narrowed even further, and so on.
GNOME changed that to recursive search, which means that when you start writing letters or numbers, Nautilus (Files) will start a search in the folder and all the sub-folders.
This behavior has left a lot of users disappointed. One developer, Daniel Wyatt, submitted a patch for Ubuntu 14.04 and upstream GNOME. The Ubuntu patch is still being reviewed and it might get accepted, but the GNOME developers have rejected it for upstream.
With a little luck we might get the old, natural search back.