GNOME Question: Why sudden change from breadcrumbs?

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:14:54 +0800
"Joel Bryan Juliano" <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:

> I saw the screenshots of the new GNOME Beta, and currently I'm doing GARNOME
> in our university to test it out, and just wondering why the developers made
> this decision? Is it a good change from the breadcrumbs to location bar?

I guess it depends on the user - the *first thing* I change in Nautilus is
to make the location bar permanent. 

But then, I'm the kind of user who has a terminal or ten permanently open,
so maybe I'm not the target user type for the so-called "Human Interface
Guidelines" ;-)

Peter