Comment 13 for bug 386150

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Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.) wrote : Re: [Bug 386150] Re: Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, redundant, and ugly

Alexander Hunziker wrote:
> In my opinion ignoring the gnome setting whether or not to show text
> labels in toolbars should not be ignored in nautilus. if users don't
> want text labels, they can set it accordingly system wide.
>

True, but we want a good, simple, intuitive default first, then the
option to change it by adding or modifying features.

> Personally, I use all of the UI elements in Nautilus regularly.
> Including the side pane, including the zooming icons. And I value the
> location bar very much, that's one of the best features of nautilus.
>

So, if they were switched off by default (I'm not necessarily suggesting
they should), you could, according to your suggestion above, switch them
on system-wide.

> Please don't start overactively simplifying stuff without consensus and
> it being well thought through. Thanks!
>

We won't. This is something that needs testing and discussing. Any
opinions and suggestions are most welcome.