** Description changed: after upgrading to 16.04 from 14.04, I found that all file open dialog lost the address bar (location entry). The only thing to navigate between folders is the breadcrumb bar. Every path change requires a dozen of clicking, while before I could just paste the path and done. This is a big inconvenience. - after googling, I found tones of reports to restore the location entry + after googling, I found tons of reports to restore the location entry using the below command gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry true - or + or dconf write /org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/always-use-location-entry true however, this fails to work on my system, I got - - fangq@taote:~$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry true + fangq@taote:~$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use- + location-entry true (process:11686): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._g_2dfile_2derror_2dquark.Code4: Failed to rename file '/home/users/fangq/.config/dconf/user.SO58SZ' to '/home/users/fangq/.config/dconf/user': g_rename() failed: No such file or directory + I would like to get a workaround to revert to the previous setting + (either location entry is displayed by default, or can be re-enabled by + clicking a button on the dialog). Also, I would suggest the developers + to consider adding this feature back. For people who use Linux a lot, + clicking is just not fast enough! - I would like to get a workaround to revert to the previous setting (either location entry is displayed by default, or can be re-enabled by clicking a button on the dialog). Also, I would suggest the developers to consider adding this feature back. For people who use Linux a lot, clicking is just not fast enough! + + Links to similar complains: + + https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/154106/show-address-bar-w-full-path-in-nautilus-instead-of-breadcrumbs-bar + https://www.howtogeek.com/189777/how-to-show-the-location-entry-instead-of-the-breadcrumb-bar-in-nautilus-in-ubuntu-14.04/ + https://askubuntu.com/questions/547688/default-to-showing-and-using-pathbar-in-ubuntu-file-dialogs + https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/65 + https://blog.tersmitten.nl/restore-the-location-bar-in-nautilus.html + https://askubuntu.com/questions/324064/use-path-bar-and-address-bar-in-nautilus + + and many more + + https://www.google.com/search?q=nautilus+always_use_location_entry
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