> If you want a supremely annoying address bar, you should check out Windows File Explorer from Vista/7 onward. Each component of the URI is a drop down menu item and only by clicking on whitespace to the far right can you get to the actual URI.
Actually, I’m one of the people who like that so much, I enabled it even in KDE Dolphin.
EDIT: Due to submission restrictions, I can’t answer right now – I’ll have to wait about an hour before I can answer comments, sorry.
How do you use it? I understand how it works but I see no advantage to it over the tree view. I always enable the "expand to location" option so that my tree view is exactly where I am.
To me that address bar abomination is just an obfuscation of otherwise useful information with large clickable regions of functionality I don't want.
I think you are in the minority here. For most people, navigating from one folder to another is not "functionality I don't want" in a desktop folder browser, but is the main thing you want to do. I'd much rather have UI that lets me navigate efficiently than that makes it efficient to copy-and-paste arbitrary substrings within a folder path. I do the former almost every time I use the file browser and the latter basically never.
My main computer is a Mac and I very much wish its "Finder" had navigation tools as nice as the "breadcrumb bar" you are describing in Windows.
>My main computer is a Mac and I very much wish its "Finder" had navigation tools as nice as the "breadcrumb bar" you are describing in Windows.
It's not completely the same as on Windows, but:
- Shift-Apple-G lets you enter a directory path to open (including bash-like completion with tab).
- Option-Apple-P shows/hides the "path bar" at the lower edge of a window where the hierarchy of the current folder is displayed (including a spartan context menu).
On Windows I mainly use the explorer address bar to go to those hidden folders like ProgramData.
Thanks for the right-click on title tip... doesn't seem to have a show breadcrumbs option that I can find... still in yosimite on my work laptop though.
> How do you use it? I understand how it works but I see no advantage to it over the tree view. I always enable the "expand to location" option so that my tree view is exactly where I am.
Well, the tree view in dolphin is small, and mostly hidden by the bookmark menu.
So I have to resort to using the breadcrumbs as a poor (wo-)mans tree view.
Actually, I’m one of the people who like that so much, I enabled it even in KDE Dolphin.
EDIT: Due to submission restrictions, I can’t answer right now – I’ll have to wait about an hour before I can answer comments, sorry.