No, there is no way to remove the tip in the bottom left/right edges when you select a file or folder showing it's information.
This has been called floating status bar and the gnome developers wants to remove the old status bar also!! The old status bar is still available in 12.10. If you select from menu → View → Status bar, the old status bar will be activated and you will get rid of the new floating status bar. You can use this as a workaround.
There is a recent commit in nautilus source to remove the old status bar completely. The commit can be seen here. The main line of importance there is this two one:
Remove the statusbar
We use a floating status bar now.
If you don't want this feature, I would suggest you to compile the nautilus yourself.
Im using 10.10 . this should be similar to 12.04
open any folder in nautilus
Then click on view(top left corner) and disselect the status bar.
In the top exaple u see that that statusbar is selected thus we seethe info of the file
in this one we dont
No, there is no way to remove the tip in the bottom left/right edges when you select a file or folder showing it's information.
This has been called floating status bar and the gnome developers wants to remove the old status bar also!! The old status bar is still available in 12.10. If you select from menu → View → Status bar, the old status bar will be activated and you will get rid of the new floating status bar. You can use this as a workaround.
There is a recent commit in nautilus source to remove the old status bar completely. The commit can be seen here. The main line of importance there is this two one:
If you don't want this feature, I would suggest you to compile the nautilus yourself.
Im using 10.10 . this should be similar to 12.04
in this one we dont
open any folder in nautilus
Then click on
view(top left corner) and disselect the status bar.In the top exaple u see that that statusbar is selected thus we seethe info of the file
thats it