Improve the navigation bar in Nautilus

[ubby]

The navigation bar in Nautilus is not as good as the Navigation bar in Windows Vista/7 and KDE.
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/2479/snapshot2ni.png
It looks like the Gnome devs half-implemented breadcrumbs. The spinners allow you to change directories very easily.

Look for a better explanation at KDE Dolphin (Navigation Bar):
http://dolphin.kde.org/features.html

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that's not really a bug report though, "not as good" lacks details, could you give specifics?

[Jordy van Heeswijk (jordyvh)]

I think he means the following:

Say you have a folder in your home directory called 'parent', which contains the folders 'child1', 'child2' and 'child3', and you're in folder 'parent'. In the navigation bar you'll see something like
> home > parent
Now in Vista/7, you can press a little arrow next to the 'parent' button in the navigation bar, which will give you a popup menu listing the folders 'child1', 'child2' and 'child3'. In other words: you can directly navigate to a subfolder via the navigation bar.
In Nautilus, you have to doubleclick on a folder in the main view to achieve the same result.

[Jordy van Heeswijk (jordyvh)]

What I forgot to mention in my comment:

This popup feature especially comes in handy when the user wants to navigate to a different subfolder in a parent folder.
Say the user is in a folder called 'parent4', and his navigation bar shows this:
> home > parent1 > parent2 > parent3 > parent4
If he wants to navigate to a folder in 'parent1', in Vista/7 he can simply click the little arrow next to 'parent1' and select the desired folder from the popup menu.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

if jordy you are right then this is not a papercut rather a wishlist in nautilus so invalid for a papercut. but does the reporter confirms what jordy wrote is the same he wanted to report?

[ubby (kostas-sytske)]

Yes, the explanation from Jordy is what I mean.
I think it is still a papercut bug because I think it is relatively easy to fix and it negatively impact the user experience.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

@ubby this is a feature request that does not exist in nautilus so its not a papercut

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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)

[Vish (vish)]

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream.
Once submitted upstream , do report back here with the upstream bug number.
Thanks in advance!

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316277

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Upstream rejected the idea, closing