Text Address bar missing in nautilus

[Richard Ssekibuule]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Text Address bar missing in nautilus

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 4 22:20:35 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.29.91-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Richard Ssekibuule (rkayondo)]

I think this more of a missing feature than a bug. Previous versions of
Nautilus in 9.10 had an address bar where text can be entered for location.
This is missing in lucid.

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. Please answer these questions:
>
> * Is this reproducible?
> * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
>
> This will help us to find and resolve the problem.
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Text Address bar missing in nautilus
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532211
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you mean what you get when using ctrl-L in nautilus?

[Richard Ssekibuule (rkayondo)]

Yeah, definitely! This option was previously available as an icon on the
left hand-side of the location.
Cheers!

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> you mean what you get when using ctrl-L in nautilus?
>
> --
> Text Address bar missing in nautilus
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532211
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Confirm.
Address bar can be added with ctrl+L but restart doesn't keep the behaviour, it shows buttons again.
This is a regression in my view since I never use buttons.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the choice to display the button bar by default is a design decision and not a bug, you can change /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry in gconf-editor if you want though

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Oh, very sad. Thanks very much for the reply Sebastien.

[Richard Ssekibuule (rkayondo)]

Default option is fine, but non-power users should be given the option
of clicking an icon to bring back the address. This icon is available in
version 2.8.
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 21:25 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> the choice to display the button bar by default is a design decision and
> not a bug, you can change
> /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry in gconf-editor if
> you want though
>
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Invalid
>

[VladimirCZ (vlabla)]

Richard Ssekibuule wrote on 2010-03-09:
"Default option is fine, but non-power users should be given the option of clicking an icon to bring back the address."

I would add that for some tasks it is easier to use the text bar (you can copy a long address in it) and for some the button bar (when searching through sub-folders of one folder). Switching the bars via gconf-editor is not enough flexible, but rather annoying.

I wonder, why for some people a decision that one option will be the default automatically means that switching to other options is probably not needed. Similar scheme applies to tabs at bottom (now back on top) - this should be rather an option in Preferences of Nautilus.

[Richard Ssekibuule (rkayondo)]

Hey buddy, let us be kind to the developers. You have made good usability
suggestions and hopefully they will take them seriously.

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 1:02 AM, VladimirCZ <email address hidden> wrote:

> Richard Ssekibuule wrote on 2010-03-09:
> "Default option is fine, but non-power users should be given the option of
> clicking an icon to bring back the address."
>
> I would add that for some tasks it is easier to use the text bar (you
> can copy a long address in it) and for some the button bar (when
> searching through sub-folders of one folder). Switching the bars via
> gconf-editor is not enough flexible, but rather annoying.
>
> I wonder, why for some people a decision that one option will be the
> default automatically means that switching to other options is probably
> not needed. Similar scheme applies to tabs at bottom (now back on top) -
> this should be rather an option in Preferences of Nautilus.
>
> --
> Text Address bar missing in nautilus
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532211
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you should discuss this on the upstream nautilus mailing list, ubuntu didn't do this change it's coming from GNOME

[Sage Ross (ragesoss)]

Here's an upstream bug about this issue: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609128