File manager options in Arch/GNOME

Hi!
This is my first post here - I'm an Arch user for about three days now. I migrated fro mWindows XP to Ubuntu about six months ago and decided to move to a different distro because I was fed up of the shocking speed (which, admittedly, was a lot faster than XP), not being encouraged into the terminal (everything has a shiny interface) and everything constantly breaking (I think i've typed dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg more times than my name now). I really like what I see - it's super fast and lightweight and installing Arch, X and GNOME was super smooth (apart from a 36 hour bad-patch where I got my network cards confused ). The only major gripe I have with it is that nautilus is an absolute pita here - it's the only thing I can honestly say was better in Ubuntu. Nautilus here has no sidebar, status-bar or navigation bar and opens every folder in a new window. Whenever I'm moving around anywhere other than in home I like to use the terminal, but I do a lot of browsing in my home directory and find it's pretty essential to have a good file manager so I thought I'd post a thread and see if anyone had any reccomendations for good file managers for Arch/Gnome. What's popular, what works well and what looks good? (I need something easy on the eye, screenshots would be nice) - can anyone pass on a reccomendation?
Cheers
Pete

The only major gripe I have with it is that nautilus is an absolute pita here - it's the only thing I can honestly say was better in Ubuntu. Nautilus here has no sidebar, status-bar or navigation bar and opens every folder in a new window. Whenever I'm moving around anywhere other than in home I like to use the terminal, but I do a lot of browsing in my home directory and find it's pretty essential to have a good file manager so I thought I'd post a thread and see if anyone had any reccomendations for good file managers for Arch/Gnome.
you can configure nautilus doing that:
open nautilus->edit->preferences; select Behaviour and mark Always Open in browser windows.

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