GNOME Question: Why sudden change from breadcrumbs?

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:10:53 +0200
Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:

[snip]

> I think
> it also helps less tech savvy users understand how paths are written -
> that's still a mystery for many windows users.

I tend to agree with this - why hide the path when it is so useful to
learn where files and directories are in the file system. ( Jeff Waugh and
others have pointed out to me on another list ( sounder?) that "ordinary
users" don't care about learning the file system. I'm not sure what the
definition of an ordinary user is ...  ;-))
> 
> What I hope it does, or does next, is that you can click on the
> directory names to open them, but if you double click _after_ the end of
> the path you get it selected as plain text and can then copy it.

Well, one neat trick with nautilus is that you can drag-drop a directory
or a selected path, either from the location bar or the icon itself, to
gnome-terminal and it will show there as the full path - so for example if
you want you can type " cd " then drag the directory icon to the terminal
window to complete the path . Cute... but tab-complete is way faster ;-)

Incidentally, this isn't a "nautilus" feature - for instance
the same tricks work from the rox filer. But then the rox filer also has a
"mini command line" which, as far as I know, nautilus lacks...

Peter