Feature request: dropdown list of folders when holding breadcrumb item

Bug #584851 reported by Joe_Bishop
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Bug Description

In Dolphin and Windows Vista/7 Explorer they can list folders laying in the same directory by pressing ">" (in Dolphin) or "▸" (in Explorer) sign what placed right of the breadcrumb. I don't remember the behaviour, but suppose they try too keep the same path if all directories are available (Fast way to switch between folders /home/user/Tmp/dir1/yesterday/12/done, /home/user/Tmp/dir2/yesterday/12/done, /home/user/Tmp/dir3/yesterday/12/done, /home/user/Tmp/dir4/yesterday/12/done, etc by doing only 2 clicks) and reduce the path if there are no dirs, but keep the maximal match (eg if we are in /home/user/Tmp/dir1/yesterday/12/done, but only /home/user/Tmp/dir2/yesterday/12 is available, we will enter in the latter one, not in just /home/uset/Tmp/dir2).

But I don't like these signs though, the breadcrumb bar looks overcomplicated with them and they are too small to use them with comfort. My suggestion is to use Google Chrome web browser approach: they don't have any dropdown history sign, but user can list its history by holding left mouse button over the "back" or "forward" buttons. I think this idea can be used to list these folders without using these ugly signs to repeat the similar functionality.

I've filled the same idea on gnome bug tracker: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619490

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Joe_Bishop (denis-cheremisov-gmail) wrote :
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ammonkey (am-monkeyd) wrote :

if u want to implement behavior like chromium u have to keep it consistency. In chromium long left clik = right click. The 2 brings the history menu from the arrow button toolbar. Button in the breadcrumb already got a menu when u right click on them. So if we put a new menu in here we have to ditch the old one. Are we sure we don't need any of the old menu?

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Joe_Bishop (denis-cheremisov-gmail) wrote :

I don't think we should follow chromium strictly. Left button hold is enough. Right click should keep the old behaviour.

Changed in nautilus-elementary:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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