+1 It seems a totally a daft decision to remove the button. @ Developers - please, please can we have it back?
Some of you folks may be interested in a (closed as "solved") thread in the "Lucid Lynx Testing and Discussion" forum on this subject...
My situation is particularly bizarre. I was in "text mode" when I upgraded from Karmic to Lucid. I am now stuck in text mode. Ctrl+L highlights the text and ESC toggles a trailing slash at the end of the path, on & off. I cannot actually get back to button mode at all!
Seems the only solution at the moment for those who want the toggle button back is to download the Nautilus source from GIT and compile it yourself. Hmmm...
Best wishes, G.
Last edited by Mr.Goose; May 3rd, 2010 at 04:31 PM.
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There's a way to at least get the functionality back, using gconftool. You have to create a new empty file, and open it with gedit text editor. Make the file's content like this:
Save it. And finally create a launcher to that script. The launcher's command should be:Code:#!/bin/bash SHOW=$(gconftool-2 --get /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry) if [ $SHOW = "true" ] ; then gconftool-2 --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry --type=bool false else gconftool-2 --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry --type=bool true fi
sh /PATH_TO_SCRIPT/FILENAME. And in "type", choose "Application in terminal".
That way, the launcher becomes pretty much the same as that button we miss XD
but it will be in the panel instead of being by the location bar. I guess it's something...
@gadolinio
in Lucid Lynx it won't remember it, I mean you have to press Ctrl + L every time the window is reloaded or re painted.
Ok thanks to aysiu I have found the solution to my problem and it may help some others as well. They posted a way to permanently revert the "bread crumbs" back the the text bar using gconf-edit.
This may not help those who want to switch back and forth, but for me (I personally don't like the look and feel of the breadcrumbs at all) works out nicely.Re: Has the text-based location bar been removed from Nautilus?
You can change it back to text-only.
Press Alt-F2 and paste in
Code:
gconf-editor
Then go to Apps > Nautilus > Preferences and check always_use_location_entry
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My thanks go to aysiu.
John
Yeah... give me my toggle button back... or else
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Thirded.
Apparently it was a gnome decision. All bug reports I can find seem to lead here......
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605608
There doesn't seem to be much appetite from the development community, where keyboard shortcuts are the main language.
Last edited by BFG; May 5th, 2010 at 06:15 PM.
I've tried the script in a virtual machine with Lucid, and it works. And other people propose using gconf-editor and then apps--> nautilus--> preferences, and check always_use_location_entry; as far as I know that does the same as the script, but from the terminal.
I'll try it and then restart the system, with one and the other option set, to see if it still remembers the configuration. I'll post results then.
Ctrl+L does indeed work for a single window, as ctrl+H does for hidden files. But the problem is that, in the end, ctrl+L doesn't really toggle between text and button mode; it's only intended to let you find some specific place. The same function is under "Go To" menu, then "Place...", which was also in Nautilus before, at least in Intrepid Ibex.
So the conclusion would be: developers didn't just make the function accesible with Ctrl+L; that GoTo already existed. They actually removed the toggle button :S And that function is now less accesible (gconf-editor, or gconftool).
@gadolinio
I've create a launcher pointing to your script, it works fine but I don't know how to make it easily accessible in the side panel as you propose, could you please advise?
Thanks
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