As far as I know... with nautilus 3.10 in Ubuntu 14.04 there is a new patch to the source named restore-traditional-menu-bar.patch to bring back the "File | Edit | View | Go | Bookmarks | Help" menus instead the new "View" & "Location" buttons.
In Nautilus 3.6, introduced in raring, the menu layout was changed
from the traditional all-entries-in-one-menubar to:
* an application menu called "Files" in the Unity menu bar
* a view menu has moved to some toolbar buttons and a dropdown under an arrow in the upper right of a window
* all other menu items have moved to a cog button dropdown in the upper right of a window
For Unity, we should probably switch back to the more traditional
layout (and keep the new layout for GNOME). I'll assign an Ayatana
task to get design guidance on what the layout should be.
------------------------ Desired resolution:
- Remove the 'cog' icon from the top right of the Nautilus toolbar. Move the view and search buttons over to the right, so that the right
most view button occupies the position which previously held the cog
button.
In this way if you are using Unity you have the traditional menu, but if you are using gnome, gnome-session-flashback you have the new menu buttons.
Nautilus in Unity:
Nautilus in Gnome-Flashback:
If you want to have the traditional menu with the new buttons in Unity...You can try to edit the nautilus source code.
NOTE: I recommend you to do this in a Virtual Machine or in a Test Machine to see is everything is OK.
In this example I'm running Ubuntu "14.04" with "nautilus 3.10.1".
1) Make sure you have enable the Source code repository
- Open the Ubuntu Software Center
- In the Menu Bar choose Edit -> Software Sources. Click to enable "Source code repository".
Just in case I use the "Main Server" to Download.
Open a Terminal window Ctrl+Alt+T and type:
2) In the Terminal type the following to install the necessary packages.
sudo apt-get install build-essential quilt
3) Install build dependencies.
sudo apt-get build-dep nautilus
4) Create a folder to download the source code.
mkdir ~/Downloads/src
cd ~/Downloads/src
5) Download the source code & Export variables.
6) Create the patch and Edit the source code.
Remove the lines... 550 and 572.
Remove the line 550
if (nautilus_toolbar_show_menu_buttons ()) {
Remove the line 572
}
Save the changes.
Before:
After:
7) Compile and build the deb packages.
8) Install the deb packages.
9) Finally you can logout & Login or Kill Nautilus and restart it or Reboot your machine to see the changes.
Before:
After:
Hope this helps.