Microsoft has attempted to do the same thing in the trial run of Nashville (it was the OS that was later turnt into Windows 98), they have removed "up" from the Explorer and kept only Forward and Back. This was a disaster (and anybody with any brain can understand why, if you went from a different directory there is no way to go up one level, since 'Back' takes you to a completely different point of the directory tree).
So, the question becomes, if even Microsoft was intelligent enough to return this feature, why did *anybody* in the free software community decide that it was good to remove it. Even the idiots who removed buttons from the phone or made something too small to be useful as a computer and too large to be a mobile (Apple, Inc) wouldn't dream of doing something as stupid as this outside of some test audience. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1108637 Title: backspace key no longer works in nautilus Status in Nautilus: Invalid Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I know that that it's not Ubuntu's fault that the gnome-devs have removed so much of the useful functionality from nautilus 3.6, but one regression that I find particularly annoying is that the backspace key no longer works as a 'back' button. Instead, you have to press ALT- left arrow, which is much more complex, as well as non-intuitive (non- intuitive in the sense that many users tend to use backspace to go back in browsers). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-2.6-generic 3.8.0-rc4 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-2-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Jan 29 15:39:50 2013 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'800x550+853+1291'" InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-25 (156 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120724.2) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1108637/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
