Quick Tip for Gnome: Taking Back the Location Entry in Nautilus
I have seen this question come up a couple of times on IRC channels and now on twitter (warning: passionate language) so I thought I would explain how to retrieve the location bar that has seemingly been replaced altogether by the 'windowsy' location browser since 2.30.
Just in-case you do not know what I am talking about here is a screenshot of what we generally do not want:
And here is a screenshot of what we generally do want:
It's not a difficult fix. All you need to do is open a terminal window and enter the following:
and to switch back:
Done.
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry true
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry false
