GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 606403
spacebar in nautilus should not open a file
Last modified: 2012-08-14 21:02:53 UTC
originally reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/431073 By mistake, I hold down the spacebar, the result was a file opening SEVERAL times. Then i realized, it's really necesary the option to open a file by pressing enter or spacebar?
folder/files should not open with a space bar. only enter key should be assigned
Created attachment 157410 [details] [review] Removes the possibility to use space to open files and folders in all views
Created attachment 157621 [details] [review] 90% working Well, this was tricker than I thought. Patch is working as intended (as Alex told me on IRC) in icon view but not in list view. Spacebar will not activate/open a file/folder but instead work as "normal" key and activate the interactive search function. But, as I said, this is not working in list view because I cannot insert " " into the search box as gtk_tree_view_get_search_entry() returns NULL for non-custom search entries. Really - is this the behavior we want? As how often does a file or folder start with a space? What else could we to do with space? Eg, in list view and folder we could expand. Maybe it should be disabled for everything else? Alex?
I'd like to hear some more arguments why this behaviour should be changed. The bug report indicates that someone accidentally pressed space bar - that doesn't seem like a good enough reason to change the current mapping. In GTK, space is used to 'Toggle selected state of focused check box, radio button, or toggle button' - Nautilus would seem consistent with this. The major inconsistency is with web browsers, where space scrolls down. Many people learn shortcuts in that context and *could* expect similar behaviour in their web browser. What do Finder and Windows Explorer do? Whatever happens, I don't see a good argument for not using the space bar as a short cut for something. Other apps use it, I don't see why Nautilus shouldn't.
Finder in OSX opens a quick look view of whichever file or directory is selected when the space bar is pressed.
Windows explorer do nothing when the space bar is pressed, but conbined with shift or ctrl is used to select elements..
This bug should be set to resolved 3.2.1 the binding is now shift+space
Yep. We do quick look now on space.