Comment 5 for bug 1666681

Hey Carlos @csoriano,

sorry for replying to such an old bug but I didn't know where else to do this. You mentioned use-case covered by search, so here are my usecases not covered by search (as far as I know).

In research projects you often have big datasets. So e.g., when I get data from an MRT-scan with a couple of thousand images, tracker is out of the question. I need to access the data immediately and can't wait for indexing.

When I want to navigate to images starting with "PBX" I just enter that for type-ahead and Nautilus jumps directly to the first file starting with that while still showing me the files before and after (according to the current sort-order). Search doesn't navigate, it searches for "PBX" and shows me all files containing PBX anywhere (after a long wait because the files aren't indexed, yet).

Sometimes I need to see files in the context of their creation time. With type-ahead I just sort by date and navigate to a specific file to see which files where created before and after the file in question.

Researcher who are already using newer versions of Gnome without type-ahead often just use PgUp/PgDown until the see what they need instead of directly navigating there.

You see the pattern: search can't replace navigation. They are two seperate things.

Thanks for taking the time to reply here. If you're interested in discussing this further, just let me know where.