No Preference to "Show Text Location instead of Buttons"

[Lonnie Lee Best]

I'm one who doesn't like the trend where file explorers are using buttons (exclusively) to represent the current hierarchical location you're at in the file system. Instead, I like to see the text representation of the path like this:
/home/user/

Unfortunately, there is no way (I've found) to set my preference in Nautilus.

To see what I'd prefer, you can go here in the menu:
Files > Enter Location

But there is no way to set this view as default.

I do see certain advantages to the button-hierarchy method, in that you can click any button to go to a particular place in the hierarchy. But often I despise the fact that these buttons do not have enough room to display the complete path back to root.

There needs to be a "View > Toolbars" (similar to options you'd see the Firefox). This could potentially allow you to see both representations of the path at the same time.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-27.40-generic 3.8.13.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Aug 10 08:32:13 2013
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'800x550+267+250'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-03 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This is possible; it's just not an option in Preferences.

Run dconf-editor and navigate to org.gnome.nautilus.preferences and make sure always-use-location-entry is checked.

[Ads20000 (ads20000)]

Filed upstream at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/419

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

^^^ Closed by upstream