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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by jopsen on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @01:22AM (#46042876)
Lots of opinions that are less than idea in gnome. But the only one that really breaks me is lack of typeahead in Nautilus.

I just want to type D, enter and open Documents/, how hard can it be. It's been almost a decade since they removed it, and I still can't use vanilla Nautilus.

I always end up with Nemo or a patched Nautilus.

rant aside, the rest of gnome seems fine. Don't love it, but also don't hate it. I can add my own shortcuts with rofi/dmenu.

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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by vbezhenar on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @02:41AM (#46043300)
Works for me. I'm typing D, it instantly filters the list of files and selects first item. That's "desktop" for me, so I need to type O or press Down to select "documents" and type <Enter>.
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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by jopsen on Friday November 28, 2025 @04:44AM (#46077159)
The filtering of files is not instant. If you type do<enter> it won't be fast enough. Maybe there have been slight improvements.

But afaik it still defaults to search.

Try: https://github.com/lubomir-brindza/nautilus-typeahead

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