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[Dmitry Shachnev <Mitya57@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fixed in Nautilus 3.x / Ubuntu 11.10

** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Title:
  Nautilus file browser toolbar is complicated, needs a face-lift

Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Invalid
Status in Nautilus:
  Expired
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  *****************
  This proposal is post-poned for now , Upstream Nautilus devs want to work on toolbar editor > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42834

  The right place for any Comments/thoughts/suggestions regarding the
  design can be posted on the Ubuntu wiki:
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Design/Nautilus

  A Launchpad bug report is not the place for a debate about the design.
  Kindly post your suggestions on the wiki page. Your feedback is valuable.
  *****************

  
  By default, Nautilus's file browser displays a side pane, a status bar, and two toolbars (a "Main Toolbar" and a "Location Bar"), not to mention a menu bar and the content area itself. This presents the user with a huge amount of complexity. I asked myself a few questions while looking at the default file browser:

      1. Back, forward, up, stop, reload, home, zoom, a location bar --
  these are the same controls available in my web browser that I know
  and love. Why do they look so different here? They take up so much
  more space, and they occupy two toolbars where my web browser needs
  only one.

      2. What does the Stop button do?

      3. Why do back, forward, up, stop, etc. have text labels? They
  don't have text labels in Firefox. The icons are good -- I recognize
  the symbols and understand what the buttons do.

      4. Why do I have "Home" and "Computer" buttons when the same
  functionality is available and made much more useful in the side pane?
  That seems redundant.

  These questions prompted a very simple rearrangement of the default
  controls (see attachment simpler_nautilus.png).

      1. It should be at least as simple to browse your local documents
  as it is to browse the Internet. I've combined the Navigation and
  Location toolbars into one.

      2. I removed Stop.

      3. I removed labels. The icons are salient and tooltips are
  available.

      4. I left the home and computer buttons untouched, but removed
  them in another mockup (simpler_nautilus.png).

  What do you think? Can we simplify Nautilus, even if not this
  drastically?

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