I am going to withdraw this bug. I just realized that the left and right arrows are used to show the beginning or ending of the path, respectively, when the path is too long to fit in the horizontal space of the Nautilus header bar.
When the full path doesn't fit: - Clicking the left arrow displays the previous parent directories. The user can click multiple times until the root directory appears. At that point, the left arrow button becomes inactive. - Clicking the right arrow displays the next directories. The user can click multiple times until the child directory appears. At that point, the right arrow button becomes inactive. - The left and right buttons are both inactive whenever the breadcrumbs can show the full path to the current folder. ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1723634 Title: nautilus breadcrumbs left and right arrows serve no purpose To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1723634/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs