Comment 2 for bug 730865

Indeed. I removed the Nautilus launcher from the dock, as that's not how I like to get to my files. I enjoyed having a "Places" menu, and it was always easy to scroll quickly down the menu and open the directory that I wanted to access. Now, I either have to search*, or click at least two or three times in a much slower full-screen interface. What's needed is either to make the "Files + Folders" button on the dock much more prominent and powerful, or to provide some similarly congenial alternative to the Places/System menus (because those really were quite good**).

* and search doesn't seem to give me directories, which might be OK when it becomes much, much more powerful, but for now, only I can read my mind. I suspect there's a reason that people don't really use desktop search much, on any platform, and I suspect that reason is that it is a very, very hard problem. Zeitgeist, Tracker and Unity are all doing very well tackling it (and it's really great that they are trying so hard, and having such success), but I don't think we're quite there yet.

** and talk of "Activities" or "chrome-less content" is all well and good, but the Applications/Places/System divide worked well, and we are yet to escape the paradigm where Applications run on a System, and are used to interact with files which are found in Places. That was an effective paradigm.