Colin Charles wrote an article called The Spatial Way talking about how the new Nautilus works in Gnome 2.6.
It took me a day or so to get used to it, and I found that I actually like it better. It is kind of the way that windows explorer worked early on, when you open a folder it opens another explorer window.
I know that they have shortcuts to close the parent windows, however I would like to suggest another shortcut. I think that a SHIFT-click on the X in the top right corner should close the current window and all parents. (I used that a lot in the old style Windows) I may just head on over to Bugzilla for Gnome and suggest that.
Nice to see that at least someone likes it.
I might if I gave it a chance but, seeing as I usually have to use Konqueror for the ability to combine tabbed browsing and file management (I tend to run with several dozen windows open at once), I can’t afford anymore windows.
Let me know if you do submit a bug report. I would like this, also. I’m always at the bottom of the file menu closing parents.. I shouldn’t need to goto a menu for something like this, and the shortcut key sucks and is uncomfortable to use.