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Was happy to read this, as I've often imagined doing this myself (i.e. thoroughly hashing out commentary on a bunch of nits in a GUI that annoy me and I'm convi

Was happy to read this, as I've often imagined doing this myself (i.e. thoroughly hashing out commentary on a bunch of nits in a GUI that annoy me and I'm convinced should be better). I agree that ctrl+L is a weird shortcut in a vacuum, but it's one I've known for 15 years, originally from using browsers. And it always makes me happy that Windows and Gnome (and Nautilus, which isn't the gnome default but is still present) all share it, which is nice for old/power-users. (but actually, on re-read, the complaint may not be with the shortcut at all, and purely with the "no other way") There's something in the room (I think it's an elephant), but not mentioned in the post, which is that the current Gnome UI is very Windows 11-like, while screwing up a lot of the details (hover-text, location bar being clickable). (After using Gnome with 14.04 and 20.04, I had stability issues in 22.04 and am now happily on XFCE; long-term stability ftw)

PeakKS 2y ago
The writer is just using an old version, you can just click the bar to enter edit mode.
- ddtaylor 2y ago
  For context "old" here is within the last 6 months.
  - kaanyalova 2y ago
    The Gnome version that the writer uses is Gnome 43 which was released 2 years ago.
    - donatzsky 2y ago
      And for how long has it had this "broken" behaviour for? When Microsoft introduced a similar path bar in Explorer (in Vista or 7, don't remember), it had the double functionality right from the beginning. The fact that Gnome Files didn't is frankly baffling.
      - kaanyalova 2y ago
        I don't think it was "broken", it was just a dumb design choice. But I don't know why people like to whine about an issue that was already fixed either.
      - 0rzech 2y ago
        > And for how long has it had this "broken" behaviour for? For years: "This will probably be part of the upcoming Gnome 46" [1], "46.0 2024-03-20" [2]. Funnily enough, this feature seems to have been released less than 6 months ago. :) [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1asa3u0/comment/kqowzje/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1asa3u0/comment/kqow... [2] https://release.gnome.org/calendar/ https://release.gnome.org/calendar/
_cenw 2y ago
Nautilus and "Files" are the same.
- gertlex 2y ago
  I might have made this mistake via confusion from my more recent use of XFCE then. (I've never bothered trying to change my file manager; let alone learn the name, except that I needed to launch nautilus from command line, years ago and so have /that/ name learned)

PeakKS 2y ago

The writer is just using an old version, you can just click the bar to enter edit mode.

ddtaylor 2y ago
For context "old" here is within the last 6 months.
- kaanyalova 2y ago
  The Gnome version that the writer uses is Gnome 43 which was released 2 years ago.
  - donatzsky 2y ago
    And for how long has it had this "broken" behaviour for? When Microsoft introduced a similar path bar in Explorer (in Vista or 7, don't remember), it had the double functionality right from the beginning. The fact that Gnome Files didn't is frankly baffling.
    - kaanyalova 2y ago
      I don't think it was "broken", it was just a dumb design choice. But I don't know why people like to whine about an issue that was already fixed either.
    - 0rzech 2y ago
      > And for how long has it had this "broken" behaviour for? For years: "This will probably be part of the upcoming Gnome 46" [1], "46.0 2024-03-20" [2]. Funnily enough, this feature seems to have been released less than 6 months ago. :) [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1asa3u0/comment/kqowzje/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1asa3u0/comment/kqow... [2] https://release.gnome.org/calendar/ https://release.gnome.org/calendar/

_cenw 2y ago

Nautilus and "Files" are the same.

gertlex 2y ago
I might have made this mistake via confusion from my more recent use of XFCE then. (I've never bothered trying to change my file manager; let alone learn the name, except that I needed to launch nautilus from command line, years ago and so have /that/ name learned)