Re:XFCE Wayland Development Roadmap
by amluto on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:20AM
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> The removal of Type-Ahead-Find in Nautilus
I don’t know about Type-Ahead-Find in Nautilus, but typing to search in the file choosers is comically bad.
“Comically bad” here goes slightly beyond not working right to mildly destructive. I don’t know how the software pulls it off, but trying to open a folder found by Tracker search shows a nonsensical UI (no, I don’t want to “replace” the folder) and sometimes removes the x bit from the folder mode. I don’t even know how. A random chmod(2) call deep in glib? Why would the file chooser ever use chmod or fchmod?
I don’t know about Type-Ahead-Find in Nautilus, but typing to search in the file choosers is comically bad.
“Comically bad” here goes slightly beyond not working right to mildly destructive. I don’t know how the software pulls it off, but trying to open a folder found by Tracker search shows a nonsensical UI (no, I don’t want to “replace” the folder) and sometimes removes the x bit from the folder mode. I don’t even know how. A random chmod(2) call deep in glib? Why would the file chooser ever use chmod or fchmod?