Comment 45 for bug 382626

@David:

Yes, I found the ctrl+L keys. Only, it's not a toggle. But more importantly, it's a right hand key combo. In my opinion right hand key combo's slow down computer interaction, as you have to move your hand from mouse to keyboard. And even if it was a left hand one. Nautilus interaction is mostly mouse based (as opposed to for example a text editor), so having to use key combo's is in conflict with that.

In user testing, we observed people clicking on this toggle
button in an attempt to create new documents simply because the icon
had a document in it.

My apologies for being frank. But, an OS should be intuitive, yes, but not necessarily idiot proof. The effect that toggle button has, isn't very dramatic, you click it, some UI element changes, you click it again and it changes back. If you click it once to make a new doc, seems possible. But you should be capable of noticing that is has some other functionality. In fact, most UI elements have tooltips these days, there's no crime in looking at them once in while.
In the long end, trying to find a better icon might be a good thing. But killing it because someone might mistakenly toggle it, what's that about?

Then again, as Vish mentions, it might have some other reason. But if you ask me, there should at least be an option to the button. As long time nautilus users have grown accustomed to it. While it could make sense to recover some screen space on a netbook, when you're on a 26" display, having the button there makes more sense.