Comment 19 for bug 508632

The problem with Ctrl+L is that this is not ergonomic, because you cannot find out (apart by going to a forum or bug report like this one) by yourself.
When you want to do this, you are just going to fiddle around with the mouse to find a way to copy the path or paste it. If it is not obvious the reaction will most probably be (but I have made no investigation on that) unhappy users who will write by hand the path in their e-mail or just use the up buttons and folders to go to the right path.
Before, with the button, it was not obvious either, but just by looking around you could find it easily. The same happen to me on Win7, I had to use it once at work, and I needed to copy the path to send it to someone, just a small fiddling and I found out (I already forgot, but that does not matter as it as easy to find) how to switch to text base pathname.

So now that I know that Ctrl+L could do the trick, I'm fine, because I know. The problem is the ergonomics behind that. There is clearly no way to find out this shortcut! And there is no other way to do it.
Therefore, this is not minimalist, this is subminimalist (implying unergonomics).

PS: I'm not against the idea that only Ctrl+L is neccessary to switch. But I am for the idea that there should be a way to find that out without requiring Google or a forum help.