GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 662243
Add an Up button when using always-use-location-entry
Last modified: 2021-06-19 12:05:51 UTC
Nautilus 2 had an Up button on the toolbar. This is gone in Nautilus 3, presumably because the path bar is awesome and is a better Up button than an Up button. But people who have the always-use-location-entry option set in dconf are left without an easy way to go up. If you're going to keep supporting that tweak, you might as well make it good for those users. I propose adding an Up button before the Back and Forward buttons, if and only if always-use-location-entry is true.
Agreed that this would be extremely helpful.
Further support from Ubuntu users here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/885592 My workaround for the moment is to use a different file manager.
Yes this basic missing functionnality is really annoying.
I wish I could try fixing this myself but I can't so I'll just pledge financial support to motivate a patch/re-inclusion.
This bothered me so much I modified nautilus. Patch is here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1904510
*** Bug 672794 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have never heard anyone complain about Firefox's "customize" feature, where you can decide what buttons and where to show them. It is easy to use (you just drag and drop) and it allows quite a lot of flexibility. How about implementing something similar?
I'm too finding the up button removal very annoying and a non-sense. Nautilus is meant to browse your file system, not the web. And I find the ability to go up in the file system tree much more useful than the ability to go forward/backward in my browsing history. Also, path bar (breadcrumbs) get totally useless with long dir names.
I would like to a) either be able to customize the Nautilus toolbar as in Firefox et al., b) or have the UP button there on the Nautilus toolbar. The option (a) would be more desirable for me, because I would like to be able to rearrange the button layout and also to add some buttons there, namely, the UP button. Also a PRINT button and a PREVIEW (like gnome-sushi) button would be nice to have around.
japela@luukku.com wrote: > a) either be able to customize the Nautilus toolbar as in Firefox et al., > b) or have the UP button there on the Nautilus toolbar. I second this!
Please see this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684857 They removed the "always-use-location-entry" option!!!
You're mixing up "always-use-location-entry" and "always-use-browser". The former hasn't been removed.
This has become a problem for me too after upgrading to 12.04. What has to happen to get this patch reviewed and scheduled for inclusion?
(In reply to comment #13) > What has to happen to get this patch reviewed and scheduled for inclusion? I don't see any patches attached here...
Created attachment 234828 [details] [review] Add Up, Reload and Home buttons to Nautilus Location Bar Original source location: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1904510
Comment on attachment 234828 [details] [review] Add Up, Reload and Home buttons to Nautilus Location Bar Patch should be made against git master, and use git format-patch or git diff. >+ action = g_object_new (NAUTILUS_TYPE_NAVIGATION_ACTION, >+ "name", NAUTILUS_ACTION_UP, All of these actions already exist in Nautilus' GtkActionGroup. The toolbar should just create and destroy those items passing the existing action, as it currently does for back and forward. Other issues with the patch: - it doesn't take the always-use-location-entry GSetting in consideration at all, but re-uses the app menu fallback machinery, which is wrong. - it also adds Home and Reload, which is not what this bug is about.
This is something which should be easily fixed as I guess the button should just call the same function as the shortcut. As of now I'll have to change file browser to another one in order to do anything useful, as I copy paste addresses a lot.
*** Bug 721085 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
So weird I had to google for how to move up a directory with Nautilus 3.18 sftp interface. Backspace doesn't do anything here (should it?) and I never would've though Alt-Up on my own. I'd say this is a UX problem.
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For what it is worth, I've stopped using GNOME desktop in favour of XFCE 4. Thunar has an Up button ;)
'respectful and considerate'. Seriously? I had to search the Internet to find a way to permanently enable the 'location entry' bar. I had to install a new software 'dconf-tools' to make the damn change. 'respectful and considerate'? Have you tried going 'up' while using the 'location entry' mode enabled?
Yes, seriously. Issues in software are not an excuse for disrespectful communication. Everything said.
No activity in two years. It does not sound like a difficult bug to fix?
(In reply to sheepdestroyer from comment #28) > It does not sound like a difficult bug to fix? Right, it's not difficult but still needs someone to have the time and interest to do a merge request.
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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/1896