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   Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 19:40:52 JST Børge

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   • Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

   @CafeJunkie @nekohayo I too hate this, and would be interested in knowing how searching instead of jumping to the first file with those characters in the beginning of its name saves a whole 1/3 of the codebase. Also, after seeing so many people complaining vocally about this over so many years, it seems strange that I can't remember seeing this argument before. It's a good argument that should be used more often. #gnome #gnomeFiles

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     Café-Junkie (cafejunkie@troet.cafe)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 19:40:53 JST Café-Junkie

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     • Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

     @nekohayo
     I hate "filtering-as-you-type search"!
     :-|
     But please explain, why this should save code!
     🤔

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     Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo) (nekohayo@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 19:40:54 JST Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

     Wishing good luck to #LinuxMint maintainers to weather the incoming storm of user complaints after replacing "type-ahead find" by "filtering-as-you-type search" in the upcoming Nemo release: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/11df68ccb3ca1

     We've done that 14 years ago in #GNOME in Nautilus and we still see complaints about it to this day, along with "There's no split view anymore!" Folks don't realize #GNOMEFiles devs being able to eliminate ⅓ of the codebase makes it actually maintainable & optimizable :blobsweats: