Wishlist: Full path (or partial path) in Nautilus tab-titles

[Luke Scharf]

I wish that I could configure Naituls tab-titles to contain the full path, or the right-most portion of the path (if the path is too long).

Instead of "Documents", I would prefer the tab to say "~/Documents/" or "/home/lukescharf/Documents/" or "...arf/Documents/"

As a long-time Unix user who is trying to use Unity and trying to use Nautilus for serious file-management for the first time (I used to always use bash), the tabs just don't look like they have anything to do with the filesystem if they don't have some slashes in them.

I understand that users who don't have years of shell experience under their belts probably prefer existing tab-title format. Having this be an option buried in the Nautilus preferences seems like a good way to split the difference.

I really do like the way nautilus browses with the horizontal stack of directory-buttons. Despite its lack of slashes, it looks like a filesystem to me, and it looks like it should do pretty well in usability trials. But I can't figure out a way to make that into a tab-title. If anyone does figure out a way to do this, it would be the perfect way to address the issue that I'm thinking about. And maybe I'll learn to look for the existing tabs-titles over time.

This is a low priority issue, even on the wishlist, but I still thought it was worth mentioning.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.32.2.1-0ubuntu13
Uname: Linux 2.6.39-02063904-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 6 16:35:52 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-09-02 (4 days ago)

[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.

[Anton Eliasson (eliasson)]

Reported upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669870