Re: Nautilus file browser sort by use

[Karsten Bräckelmann <guenther rudersport de>]

I don't mean to devalue the feature of frequently used items. That would
be nice, I guess -- but...

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 13:55 -0300, Ricardo Ayres Severo wrote:
> In my home directory I have many files and folders, one for each
> project I'm working. To find a project I have to scroll up and down
> looking for it. Actually I work with a few files/folders from the many
> I have, but they change over the time.

There is another solution to prevent extensive scrolling and searching,
that works right now. Start typing the name of the project... :)

Nautilus supports typeahead-find. That is, by simply typing in a file's
name, the selection will instantly jump to the first item that starts by
that name.

Try it, you might love it. ;)

  guenther


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