Nautilus: dropdown view selector, better be 1-Click icon

[Innocent Bystander]

The View Selector on the left and right panes is a little bit time consuming to use because of the dropdown design. The usability would be greatly enhanced with these options could be activated by a single click.

Currently the top of the left pane side view is a huge drop down box. The area used to host the dropdown should be used to put icons so that different side pane view can be selected in a 1 click fashion. Candidates to be iconized are Treeview and Places. Ideally History and Bookmark should have an icon there too. As they Bookmark and History usually display a list of items, these items will be opened in a dropdown list below the icon. The other less frequently used item (Information, Emblem, etc) can either be iconized to or still remain in a dropdown as before.

Like wise, the "List View" dropdown on the right pane should also be iconized. There should be 3 icons: Detail view, Compact View, Icon view.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not sure that icons would be as descriptive than the labels are, what does the design team think about that one?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've sent this upstream at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590286

[Marcus Carlson (0-launchpad-mejlamej-nu)]

If I'm not completely mistaken, this and other suggestions to the toolbar could be fixed as plugins or optional components ones the toolbar editor [1] is in place.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/13119

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

Excellent bug, but it's not a paper cut but rather a feature request.