Re: arrow keys not jumping to next line

[Maciej Katafiasz <mnews22 wp pl>]

Dnia 20-10-2004, śro o godzinie 11:36 +0200, Alexander Larsson napisał:
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 10:42 +0200, David Christian Berg wrote:
> > On Mi, 2004-10-20 at 09:11 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 23:21 +0200, David Christian Berg wrote:
> > > > Is it on purpose that pushing the go-right key doesn't take you to the
> > > > next line when you've the last icon of a row selected, and the go_left
> > > > doesn't take you to the end of the previous line, when you have the
> > > > first icon of a line selected? I couldn't swear you were able to do so
> > > > in 2.6, but I know that it feels strange not to be able to.
> > > 
> > > Once we supported using tab to navigate like this, but it conflicted
> > > with tabbing to change focus, so that was removed.
> > 
> > Ok, I understand that you don'whant tabs to to the job, but what about
> > the arrow keys? I mean this there anything wrong from the usability
> > point of view to jump ot the next or the previous line? The cursor in a
> > text does so, so it would be kinda consistent.
> > Anyways, I'm just posting to know, whether or not it's worth an RFE or
> > even a bug, or if people think of it as the "wrong" behaviour.
> 
> I'm not sure. Its sort of a weird behaviour for moving around what is
> basically a grid. Consider the desktop, should moving right at the right
> side of the screen move to the "next line"? On the other hand, it is a
> useful operation, if you want to select a range of icon in the sort-
> order.
> 
> What behaviour does other file managers and apps with similar UI have?

AFAICT, they universally support such behaviour (ie, they wrap up to
next line)

On the related note, I noticed I'm not able to keyboard-navigate to
icons which were assigned small thumbnails (<30K) in iconview, as
opposed to normal icons & large thumbnails[1]. As I have kinda old-ish
version (2.8.0) of nautilus running, I didn't report that, but if
someone can confirm that in newest version, I'm gonna file a bug, as
it's rather major flaw

Cheers,
Maciej

[1] The exact behaviour is even more funky than that, I can navigate to
small ones using Up/Down arrows, but not Left/Right, and I can navigate
if small thumbnail is already selected, but not from normal icon / large
thumbnail

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