Re: [Usability]Nautilus toolbar simplification

[Michael Toomim <toomim uclink4 berkeley edu>]

Mark Finlay wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 21:25, Alan wrote:
> > Why?  That's the one thing that should definatly stay IMHO.  If I want
> > to go to /foo/bar/baz/qux/some/long/directory/path it's probably a lot
> > faster to type it
>
> But is that an issue with the location bar or with nautilus's speed?
>
> The location bar is probably going to be hidden by default in 2.4 so we
> need to look at _why_ you find it faster to use it, and maybe improve
> or speed up nautilus to make this redundant.

I can think of two general cases where the location bar would afford a 
significant advantage:
  1) With large directories, the number of items you have to scroll 
through can be overwhelming.  Unix filesystems tend to have a few really 
large directories that you need to access frequently.
  2) If you want to browse from 
/home/foobar/something/else/lots/of/stuff/here/really/deep to 
/usr/lib/something/else/lots/of/stuff/here/really/deep.  It would be a 
lot more painful to do this traversal if your only commands are "up" and 
"down into this folder".

I can't say how important these cases are to the typical gnome user, 
however.

Also, would you still be able to cut-and-paste paths (or parts of 
paths), into or out of nautilus if you remove the location bar?  These 
seem like important use-cases to support.