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...) -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list