+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #894431 +++

Description of problem:
Well known key f3 for splitting the panel is now not working, actually, this feature have disappeared completely.  This was crucial advantage of nautilus above other filemanagers like eg thunar
It hssould not be the way of gnome to *remove* _good_ features. It is enough that we must live with gnome hell or xfce.. (or mate...)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
f18

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open nautilus filemanager
2.press f3 or search menus for split function
3.jump from window after not finding it
  
Actual results:
blood under the window

Expected results:
panel will be split.

Additional info:
Not to remove features! To add!

:(

--- Additional comment from  on 2013-02-08 10:00:54 EST ---

yes please! we miss it!

it was a very good feature.

so much better than the "copy to.." or "move to.." features that were added!!

--- Additional comment from Filip Hrbek on 2013-05-17 04:12:58 EDT ---

Yes. I was hitting F3 harder and harder until I almost broke my keyboard. I could not believe that the file manager could have been "improved" by removing yet another "confusing" feature.

The actual result is that now we have a Windows-XP-like file manager that I always hated for the lack of features and kept installing other alternatives to get a two-panel manager before I switched to a Linux desktop computer.

I wish I meet the person who decided that this feature would be removed...

Please, put it back until I jump from the window.

Thanks.

--- Additional comment from Jacek Pliszka on 2013-08-25 07:40:07 EDT ---

Please do it - until then I have nautilus removed - this is an essential feature for me.

--- Additional comment from jiri vanek on 2013-09-03 09:38:20 EDT ---

yy, agree here. I had moved to caja because of it...
Well now moved to mate with nemo... good work really :-/

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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
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--- Additional comment from jiri vanek on 2015-10-22 09:55:45 EDT ---

Hi good people!

Please!

When I told about this on flloc, then the answer was - you can drag the window to the border... ouch. That hurts...

So maybe f3 can duplicate the window, and move original one to right, and new one to left.  So it will pretend that it was split.

Isn t it still in spirit of gnomeshell?