> Why not have both in the one widget? Clickable and typeable. This
would have to be done very well not to be annoying. I believe the Google
Chrome browser has something like this, as does the Linkify extension
for Firefox.

and

> Better yet, why not get rid of the toggle button and make the
> location-bar-as-text-field an advanced option to be enabled in Nautilus
> preferences or a menu? My intuition is that location-bar-as-text-field
> is a feature primarily for advanced users, and that we might make
> Nautilus easier to use, and avoid this problem entirely, by removing the
> toggle button.

When I used XP a while back I installed this ExplorerBreadcrumbs[1] to
make things a bit more intuitive and nautilus like but it seems that
they did it *better* than nautilus.

Each section is a button, taking you directly to the location. Clicking
the arrow exposes other directories that branch from that point and
clicking anywhere else (towards the end of the bar) transforms it into
an editable text icon[2].

My suggestion would be to mimic this behaviour and you can then squash a
related bug (
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/386150 ) by
allowing you to eliminate up/back/forward and even reload.


[1] http://minimalist.com/software/ExplorerBreadcrumbs/
[2] http://minimalist.com/software/ExplorerBreadcrumbs/Explorer1.png

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