No text box widget in nautilus 46.2

[donjan]

Probably due to the API deprecation in recent nautilus releases, and likely the author is painfully aware, but this issue is not registered anywhere, so here we go...

Steps to reproduce:

$ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:lubomir-brindza/nautilus-typeahead
[...]
$ sudo apt update
[...]
$ apt show nautilus | egrep "Version|Sources"
Version: 1:46.2-0ubuntu0.2ppa1
APT-Sources: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/lubomir-brindza/nautilus-typeahead/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
$ sudo apt install --reinstall nautilus
[...]
$ killall -9 nautilus
$ nautilus
** Message: 18:35:43.970: Connecting to org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Files

With Preferences > Search on type ahead off.

When typing, there is no more little text box widget in the bottom right displaying the currently typed string.
When hitting backspace to modify the selection, e.g. wanting to correct "doc" -> [1x backspace] -> "dow", it instead changes to the parent directory.
Maybe the backspace could be rebound to text deletion while typeahead is active. But it would be weird without the visual feedback of the text box.

[lubomir-brindza]

Hi, yeah, the text box was removed during the rewrite to support nautilus 42 - there was a mention of this in the readme file until last november, but I figured most everyone has moved on to a newer Ubuntu release so I removed it. Might have been too soon 😅

[donjan]

I get it, if you deal with something daily, even a few months old news seems ancient.

It helps to remember that Ubuntu LTS upgrades happen on the first point release of the successor, e.g. 22.04 users get the upgrade prompt when 24.04.1 gets out, which is typically around August/September. So there's a wave uf us now.

Want to leave this open for tracking? Even make a promise or two about some new notification? ;)
In any case, thanks for the great work over the years!