Allow user to get to a folder they haven't been before

[Michael Terry]

Binary package hint: unity-place-files

Here's my use case:

I wanted to manage files in my Music folder (specifically, delete some duplicate files). I understand that I have to navigate to the folder I want and then click the 'open folder' icon on the right.

But I didn't have the Music folder in my zeitgeist history (nor my home folder). So it didn't appear in my folder history or a search. I could have opened some random folder and then navigate to Music. This works, but is not intuitive.

Possible non-mutually-exclusive solutions:
1) Allow searching to include non-historical folders. As I understand it, this would not be desired/technically difficult.
2) When searching and no results are found, perhaps suggest that it exists, but just not in my history. (This is similar to bug 646511.) Additionally, offer to popup a nautilus search for the term?
2) Always include the home directory in Favorites or something. That way, the user can drill down for (I assume) 99% of similar use cases.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unity-place-files 0.5.26-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 24 11:23:14 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-place-files

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)]

This is definitely one we want to nail for Natty.

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

Always showing the home folder as a favourite is a very good idea.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

We need some design guidance on this issue as well