Search result window in nautilus doesn't show found files' location

Thanks for your bug report. This particular bug has been filed
with the developers of the software. You can track this and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374661

I have exactly the same problem. The idea of the search system is very good and very good-looking, but not showing the folder of the searched file, makes it very useless (I was looking for a file, because I have to copy other files in the same folder. I search it by name, but the only options once searched is to open it. I don't want to open it. I want to open it's folder).

I have reported this also in nautilus bugs...but repetita iuvant

Here I have the same problem. I think that is very annoying.
The problem is that we don't have in the column editor
the file path as column.

I have found the other columns declarations in
the source in

src/nautilus-file-management-properties.glade
in row from 1454 to 1543

I think that the file affected must be also

src/nautilus-file-management-properties.c
src/nautilus-file-management-properties.h

to add a column type "file path"

and then the user can add this column type to view the path of
searched files.

ah and in search mode this column must be always visible but not in
"normal" mode (I don't know of nautilus save the column settings
for normal and search mode..)

But I don't know the nautilus source and I think that I can make mistakes...
any nautilus developer here?????

Best Regards
Nicola Lunghi

you can contact the <email address hidden> list, the nautilus upstream hackers read it usually

I have made a mistake!!! I have examined an old source... the 2.9.92

in the source 2.23.90... I think that is the latest..... that I have picked from ftp.gnome.org
i think that the file to be modified is

libnautilus-private/nautilus-column-utilities.c

it contains a list like

 columns = g_list_append (NULL,
     g_object_new (NAUTILUS_TYPE_COLUMN,
            "name", "name",
            "attribute", "name",
            "label", _("Name"),
            "description", _("The name and icon of the file."),
            NULL));
 columns = g_list_append (columns,
     g_object_new (NAUTILUS_TYPE_COLUMN,
            "name", "size",
            "attribute", "size",
            "label", _("Size"),
            "description", _("The size of the file."),
            "xalign", 1.0,
            NULL));

I have made a simple extension to show a column that display directory.
please review
(to install put it in put in ~/.nautilus/python-extensions)

Wishlist??? this is a bug!!!!!!

Annoyance is the correct word. Whoever built this application and
didn't include path/location info. is a moron.

Nikky wrote:
> Wishlist??? this is a bug!!!!!!
>
>

To maintain a respectful atmosphere, please follow the code of conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . Bug reports are handled by humans, the majority of whom are volunteers, so please bear this in mind.

Yeah sure, I understand...don't shoot the messenger. However keep in
mind, I am volunteering my time when I use an "open source" application,
and it is maddening when something so common sense is left out. Ubuntu
is advertised as being all that, so one sets high expectations. Without
users Ubuntu will falter.

Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> To maintain a respectful atmosphere, please follow the code of conduct -
> http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . Bug reports are handled by
> humans, the majority of whom are volunteers, so please bear this in
> mind.
>
>

I'd rather have an option for a column with the full path: the problem is that with many files, their paths are long, so you'd need to significantly expand this width of this column to see the full path. I'd find it preferable if the full path be displayed either in a dialog as one passes the mouse over a file's entry (or simply over the name portion of the file's entry), or if a file is selected, that the full path appear, rather than just the file name, in the bottom part of the nautilus window.

the issue got fixed upstream:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=e3ca31da5539de8f3fb067a4de21238a79b97b13

The issue is fixed in this version, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/1:3.10.1-0ubuntu1