GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 142436
New Feature - Graphical Path Representation
Last modified: 2005-08-26 21:55:28 UTC
Represent path a-la file open dialog... see http://brainguts.no-ip.com:3150/~sp0rk/Images/Nautilus.png for concept.
Also - forgot to mention: it would be nice to allow new folders to open in the same window, without having to use the --browser option. Not sure if this is available already - if it is, great. If not, please add!
I really like this idea. Not the second though, the folder is the window is the folder, so you don't open a folder in a window, you open a folder and that shows the window of the folder. They belong together :)
You can open it mith middle-click or whatever you set up so it closes the parent folder when opening a new
I think this idea is nice but it can't be done as there is too little space in the left bottom ... it wouldn't be readable/clickable anymore when you arein the 6sth dir.
*** Bug 300733 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Note that bug 300733 has a nice mockup attached (attachment 45290 [details]). The URI Eli posted doesn't seem to be accessible anymore.
Hi, I filed the duplicate bug report and made the second mockup. What I'd really like to see is for the filechooser widget to represent the status of all windows which in the relevant hierarchy. So If I am in Home/Documents/law/torts and the windows for Home and law are open, the relevant buttons in the filechooser widget in the torts window should be in the "pressed" state. The advantage would be that one could very easily toggle the visibility of other folders in the path hierarchy instead of searching through the drop down list (cumbersome). Furthermore, I think there would be enough space if one moved the status bar description text to the right and made it less extensive (i.e. from " 'misc' selected (containing 13 items) " to " 'misc' (13 items) " Just a suggestion.
This amazingly cool feature has been added [1] in Nautilus 2.11 to the browser mode. Thanks for your bug reports, though. Johannes: I think your remarks on "the status of all windows" sounds interesting but they aren't relevant here, since multiple browser windows can display the same directory, which means that the feature can't be used in an intuitive way, since you never know which window you get. Feel free to file a new bug report in which you request the addition of the path bar to the spatial nautilus. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-July/msg00026.html
Marking as FIXED.