F3 side pane is gone in Nautilus 3.6+

[Jan Schürmann]

the double pane functionality that exists in older Nautilus versions is gone in the 3.6 version.
that is a huge usability issue.

[Jan Schürmann (visionfactory.net)]

i mean the extra pane in Nautilus.
like in the screenshot

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[mark (wyrtol)]

F3 was very handy and I miss it dearly. Work around with two Nautilus windows is clumsy. Dolphin is for KDE and on Ubuntu its slow and buggy.

[v1nce (vincent-pennec)]

Before upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 I should have remembered I lost some hours tweaking my system to make it usable not just like a tablet toy.
Among those tweaks there was the complete replacement of nautilus by nemo (or something like this)

After upgrading to 16.04, the compress contextual menu is gone from nemo.
Reinstalling nemo-file-roller didn't fix the problem.

So right now I'm left with two non working file browser : nautilus with no 2nd panel and nemo with no compress menu.

I guess tweaking the nemo actions will return my compress action but question still remains : why the hell was the 2nd panel removed from nautilus ?
And no two instances (one on left other on right side of screen) is NOT a solution

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

As far I can understand - it is time to drop GNOME 3. Modern Nautilus is ugly, Evince is ugly, Gedit is ugly and so on.

I switched to MATE with its Caja and other good stuff.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

The solution is simply drop and ignore GNOME and install MATE DE with `sudo apt-get install ubuntu-mate-desktop`.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's not a bug but an upstream design decision