The Default Nautilus Will Soon Look A Lot Like Nautilus Elementary

There was an IRC meeting yesterday regarding the Nautilus UI and a lot of design as well as functionality changes were proposed. Some of these are already confirmed as TO DO such as:

Look:

• editable toolbar
• new default toolbar layout (Back (icon only), Forward (icon only), View Selector (icon-based), <spring>, Search Box)
• replace search button with a search box
• combined stop/refresh button and place this button next to the pathbar
• improve the appearance of GtkPathBar - Nautilus will get a GTK breadcrumb widget just like Nautilus Elementary
• new file selection visuals
• refine the status bar
• more!

Functionality:

• sort downloads folder by date modified
• order items in trash according to date deleted and include a date deleted column (right now you can get this functionaly and some more using a Nautilus addon).

But that's not all, there are also some proposed items such as:

• new design for the Places sidebar (revamped Nautilus Elementary sidebar anyone? :D)
• undo functionallity (there's already a patch for this, it's really weird it wasn't introduced upstream so far)
• use a zoom slider for changing the view (again something already implemented in Nautilus Elementary)
• and something a lot of us really miss: reintroduce a button to toggle text entry in the path bar (this was removed in Nautilus 2.29 or 2.30 - I'm not sure in which).

There are no mockups so far as this has just been discussed but more info / mockups should be available soon.