Nautilus Main Toolbar made compact

Since I've got my Asus eeepc 1000h, I've been looking from time to time for a way to reduce spare space on the different apps. I hence went for ubuntu-notebook-remix and it's customizations, but not everything was included. Noticeably, Nautilus, the default file browser for gnome has a "main toolbar" very space-greedy, and without simple customization ways proposed.


I found this page pointing to some package to customize the toolbar. Look at the screenshots on this page to see the effect. If the link is down, look for the package to install (code is bellow).

"nautilus elementary"

Those commands were copy-pasted from the above link for re-usability :

To install "nautilus-elementary" from it's PPA :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
nautilus -q #restarts nautilus

To compile nautilus

sudo apt-get install bzr
sudo apt-get build-dep nautilus
bzr branch lp:nautilus-elementary
cd nautilus-elementary/
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
sudo make install

And restart nautilus :

nautilus -q

That's it. Then customize everything to suit your needs via the Tweaks tab you can find via Edit > Preferences menu in Nautilus. To customize the toolbar, simply right click on it.