Re: Nautilus Feature Request: Key Bindings

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 10:57 -0500, Jesse Caulfield wrote:
> For those who only reluctantly use the mouse, keyboard use of nautilus 
> could be greatly improved by enabling  arrow key navigation similar to 
> Windows Explorer.

FWIW, the nautilus list view and tree side pane just use the same
keyboard shortcuts as the other tree views in GNOME[1], namely:

Shift-left/right (or plus/minus): expand/collapse
Backspace: select parent
Plus all the other keys you can use in a list:
<http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/stable/keynav-34.html.en>

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] Admittedly they're slightly different from Windows Explorer, but
they were originally arrived at through much comparison of toolkits and
a lot of subsequent head-scratching to make gtk more complete and
self-consistent than any of the others we looked at :)  (But this was 8
or 9 years ago, and nobody's done it again since to check if our
standards have slipped any...)

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