Comment 10 for bug 382626

That option is already there. GtkFileChooser doesn't that setting
though. Either way, the current situation is ugly, and isn't
particularly nice for users (either basic, or advanced). It's doubly
confusing for Windows users migrating, as it was a text entry until
Vista, and in Vista+ it's an advanced text-based thing, where you can
click to edit the path. And I don't think OS X even has a way to edit
the path like this, so the extra button is a bit confusing for users
migrating from there as well. I do like the Vista solution though, as it
provides a nice balance between navigating the path, and typing
something totally new.

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 17:16 +0000, David Siegel wrote:
> 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.
>