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Bug 310546 - Dangerous keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Backspace
Dangerous keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Backspace
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Keyboardability
2.13.x
Other All
: High major
: 2.14.x
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-07-15 21:38 UTC by Max Gilead
Modified: 2005-10-17 15:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14

Attachments
Fix (479 bytes, patch)
2005-07-30 13:21 UTC, Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 		none Details | Review

Description Max Gilead 2005-07-15 21:38:10 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Debian/unstable

I believe this is usability bug: while navigating folders there are two very
similar keyboard shortcuts:
- Shift+Backspace goes to upper folder, closing old window
- Ctrl+Backspace DELETES SELECTED FILES

To my great surprise I just deleted entire contents of a directory on disk
(thanks for the existence of Trash ;-) ). I meant to go to upper folder but
forgot exact modifier key and pressed Ctrl instead of Shift. Modifer keys are
much easier to forget than regular keys. It's obvious that Backspace means
'folder up' while Delete means 'delete files', Shift or Ctrl is much less obvious.

I believe that Backspace key should be reserved to navigation only and Delete
key should be used for deleting. Any other solution which doesn't allow for such
trivial and potentially dangerous mistakes would be good too.
Comment 1 Christian Neumair 2005-07-21 17:34:37 UTC 
Thanks for your bug report. This keybinding is really stupid and dangerous.
Comment 2 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2005-07-30 13:21:36 UTC 
Created attachment 49974 [details] [review]
Fix

The fix for this bug is trivial. The attached patch fixes it.
Comment 3 Christian Neumair 2005-07-30 14:42:38 UTC 
Thanks for your patch! Maybe you could submit it to the nautilus mailing list
[1] for review?

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
Comment 4 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2005-07-31 12:36:38 UTC 
Done.
Comment 5 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2005-10-05 20:22:22 UTC 
Please commit the patch, so this small but nasty bug can be marked FIXED.
Comment 6 Christian Neumair 2005-10-05 21:36:19 UTC 
I've pinged the mailing list. Setting version info to Nautilus 2.13.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-October/msg00051.html
Comment 7 Alexander Larsson 2005-10-17 15:29:24 UTC 
Fixed.