Comment 9 for bug 828582

This bug is marked as fixed, but I still experience significant delays before my first keystroke appears as well as while the keystrokes appear. Basically, I bring up the dash, type my search string, then sit back and wait for the characters to appear on screen. Even though I've typed the entire string, the auto search is occuring before the first keystroke and between some (or sometimes all) keystrokes. The delays tend to be on the order of seconds.

Admittedly, I have old hardware, but this is annoying.

I'd like some way to either (1) disable the auto search completely until I press the enter key, or (2) have the ability to set a user-defined delay parameter that holds off on the auto search until after that much time has passed with no keyboard input in the search field.

Running Ubuntu 12.10 with the latest updates.