[Usability]Nautilus toolbar simplification

[Michael Toomim <toomim uclink4 berkeley edu>]

I think the nautilus toolbar(s) could stand to be simplified quite a 
bit.  Right now, nautilus has two toolbars (one is named the "location 
bar"), because everything wouldn't fit on a single toolbar.

But it seems like most of the buttons are unneeded:
  o "Back" is the same as "Up" for most file-browsing operations.  Users
    don't need both.
  o Studies have shown that "Forwards" is used <8% as much as "Back"
    during web browsing.  During file-browsing, "Forwards" is even less
    important, since it takes you to a folder or file that's already
    visible with an icon in the main view of the file manager (the one
    you just exited out of).
  o As for "Stop" -- why would you ever want nautilus to freeze in the
    middle of displaying a directory?  Or any other type of file?  I
    think that this button is rarely useful.
  o "Home" is accessible from many other locations: I have a link on
    my desktop, in my start menu, in the go menu, via "Alt-Home", etc.
    Nautilus takes me to my home directory whenever I open a new window.
    I rarely need a quick-access link back to that home folder after
    I've left that folder to go elsewhere, so I don't see a need for a
    home button on the toolbar of every file-manager window I open.
  o "Reload" shouldn't be needed if FAM et. al. is doing its job, right?
    And if it IS needed, you have View->Reload and Ctrl-R.

Anyway, it seems like all this UI stuff was designed back when nautilus 
was a web browser, and then none of it was ever taken out.  Simplifying 
these features would make Nautilus a way-better file manager, IMHO.

Here are some before-and-after mockups...

Current toolbars:
   http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~toomim/current_toolbars.png
Redesigned toolbar:
   http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~toomim/redesigned_toolbar.png

I'd imagine that there has already been some discussion on this topic. 
I don't want to retread old conversations.  Does anyone know of existing 
 threads on this issue?   Or is there somebody actively working it?

There are a bunch of other simplifications that I think nautilus could 
use as well, but I'd really like to see the toolbar cleaned up first.

Thanks,

Michael