GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 79120
keyboard navigation initially broken on new windows
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
When you open up a nautilus window, you can't start navigating using a keyboard - ie start typing filename to jump to a particular one. The weird thing is that by prassing arrow icon three times it gets focus and starts to work. Or you have to click on the icon area and then it starts accepting keyboard input too. Similarily, when you have the location bar off, press Ctrl+L to get it up, I'd expect the URL bar to have focus, so I can start typing a new URL.
This is fixed for the location bar AFAIK and i think that the issue with the icon view is that the sidebar is in focus instead of the icon view. It works for me without the sidebar, but should probably be fixed so that the current view always has focus.
I'm pretty sure this is fixed now- Jakub, if it's not like you expect in 2.5/2.6, please reopen.