GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 46284
Perhaps put Back/Forward in background context menu?
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
jrb@redhat.com suggests that it might be useful to put Back and Forward into the standard background context menus, since you might double-click a folder to view its contents quickly, and then want to return almost immediately, and your mouse is now somewhere in the middle of the content area. One issue with this is the ever-present trade-off of only wanting to put a smallish number of the most important items in the context menus. Another issue is that we can't make this work for all views. For instance, the Mozilla web page view doesn't have a context menu (yet?), so if people got used to using the context menu for Back/Forward they might be annoyed when it isn't there. I'll assign this to Arlo to ponder since he made most of the current decisions about which menu items go where. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-26 11:19:52 ---- SPAAAAAAAAAM! (Jon Allen has taken these components; QA Assigning bugs to him.) ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:58 -------
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
Note that all major browsers do this.
I use Nautilus without the navigation bar (it takes up an ungodly amount of estate). I find myself right-clicking to go back all the time, as Galeon allows it. It would really be helpful to have 'Back' as the first menu item.
probably depends on bug 41052
<sigh> moving enhancements to post-2.0. Would be really nice, though.
my main concern with this is that this would add even more clutter to the file manager context menus. (especially the icon view) also it would create an inconsistency between the desktop and file manager context menus as in the desktop it wouldn't make sense to have these.
calum: Whats your take, I'm sure you've guessed that i'm against it.
Keyboard nav is more efficient for this anyway.
FWIW, neither OSX nor XP have this in their file manager context menus either. I agree I don't see a great advantage in adding them to nautilus, although it would be nice to implement gestures for this sort of thing one day :)
that sounds like all around agreement to me, won't fix.