GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 134415
Keyboard navigation fails with only one item in a directory
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Description of Problem: Keyboard navigation fails with only one item i a directory Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Example: mkdir -p ~/onedir/subdir/ touch ~/onedir/subdir/file I use the keyboard to navigate to "onedir" by selecting it and pressing enter 2. I'm stuck. I cannot select "subdir" since there are no other dirs or files in that dir. Actual Results: I cannot proceed. I have to use an alternative method like a mouse. Expected Results: Selection of "subdir" and pressing enter would get me where I want to go. How often does this happen? Always Additional Information: This is also apparent when using keyboard navigation on general. The first file/dir is never marked as selected/active, so guess this is a more general bug than what I'm reporting. A fix should apply to all cases so...
This seems to work fine for me in GNOME-2.5 and 2.4, so I am not sure what you're talking about. You have to hit the arrow key on your keyboard to get a directory to be selected, but it works just the same with one directory/file as it does with multiple directories/files.
To clarify this even more. I use this combination of keypresses: To select and enter "onedir" I use the arrow up and down keys to navigate and the enter key to go into the "onedir" folder. In the "onedir" folder this is _nothing_ expect _one_ folder called "subdir". The only action (again, using only arrows and return) that has an effect is the key down press. That makes a dotted rectangle appear around the "subdir" line. This is where I get stuck. Nothing happens no matter what I do, until I resort to alternative means like a mouse or a pen. This is an old bug that has been there for so long I can't remember when I first hit it. It was there in Redhat 9 (gnome 2.2) and probably Redhat 8. (gnome 2.0). I can't remember if it was there in Redhat 7.3 or whenever I first tried Nautilus.
Are you using "View as List"? If so, is this a duplicate of bug #134415?
Sorry. Make that bug number #131226.
Yes. That is the same problem. I hope you will fix this. It is clearly broken and makes the navigation inconsistent. Having to read the manual to navigate the filesystem is pushing it a bit. This is not a problem for other OS's or DE's so why should it be here?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131226 ***