Button to switch between breadcrums and addressline not available

[Thomas Bechtold]

Binary package hint: nautilus

when i start nautilus, the breadcrum for my home directory is available (see screenshot), but there is no button to switch to the address line ( where i can write down eg /home/tom/.xchat2/ )

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: f4bb95eadbb8ca6a13a3d7bd2a6a18f6
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Tue Feb 2 07:28:40 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Package: nautilus 1:2.29.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.16-generic-pae
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic-pae i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

what about pressing CTRL+L ?

[Thomas Bechtold (toabctl)]

Pressing CTRL+L works. But then i can not go back to the breadcrum navigation (i tried again CTRL+L)
I really liked the button to switch. But maybe this is not a bug, it's a feature

[Thomas Bechtold (toabctl)]

and when i close nautilus (after i pressed CTRL+L and switched to address line) and reopen nautilus, i have the breadcrum navigation again. So nautilus does not remember the last state.

[Tim Sharitt (tsharitt)]

There is a key in gconf to control this behavior, /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry. I unchecked it on mine (buttons instead of text in put) and could change back to text input with CTRL+L, but couldn't go back to the buttons with CTRL+L. Also, changing to text input with CTRL+L has no effect on the gconf settings, so it will default back to the previous setting when restarted.

In my opinion, it's not so much a bug as an aesthetic annoyance. ;)
However, it would be nice to at least have a setting in Preferences.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

It's a feature:
http://davidsiegel.org/nautilus-simplified/

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

It's also a duplicate of Bug #508632

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

@jhansonxi: although it's related, it's not a full duplicate of 508632. One important aspect of this bug is that you can press CTRL+L to go from buttons to text entry but there is no way to revert that: the CTRL+L toggle only works one way, when it should really work both ways. 508632 only mentions the toolbar button, not the keyboard shortcut.