GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 312353
Alt+D to access Location Address bar
Last modified: 2005-08-05 18:40:47 UTC
Using Alt+D to move to the _Address bar in Interent Explorer and Windows Explorer was so popular that Mozilla (both seamonkey and firefox) implemented it. Nautilus file browser doesn't seem to have any mnemonic for the Location bar and although the most obvious thing to do would be to use Alt+L for _Location I would encourage you to follow Mozilla and Windows and use Alt+D. Having both Ctrl+L and Alt+L would be redundant but using Alt+A would provide extra help for user migrating from Windows. (Konqueror fails spectacularly on several counts by unnecessarily getting rid of the File menu and replacing it with "Location" and then failing again by using L_ocation giving Alt+O to get to the Location bar.) I'm hoping you will implement this suggestion then I will see ask file-roller to implement it too, and try and get File Roller to make other changes to be more consistent with Nautilus.
You mean Ctrl-D, right? When using a German locale, Alt-D is for instance bound to "_Datei" ("_File").
Doh, Brainfart! Sorry. Please try to ignore contradictory sentences in my earlier comment. Internet Explorer (and Windows Explorer) had an Addresss bar, with the mnemonic under the d in A_ddress. (A is already in use by "F_avorites") Windows user in particularly the very vocal Joel Spolsky kept asking for the familiar Alt+D shortcut they had learned to be added to Mozilla and it eventually was. Asa Dotzler mentions the change in this journal entry: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/008628.html I was thinking it might be a good idea for Nautilus but I guess it might have to apply only to the English locales. Do German versions of Mozilla/Firefox cycle between the _Datei menu to the Navigation/Address/Location bar when you hit Alt+D? (Ctrl+D is taken for bookmarks anyway.) (For some unknown reason I temporarily confused myself thinking it was Alt+A instead of Alt+D because adding a mnemonic to the string on the toolbar would make a lot more sense than having an undiscoverable hidden keybinding just to meet the expectations of former windows users.) I would still like you the nautilus developers and usability team to consider adding the Alt+D keybinding (changing the string Location to Address to make this feature more obvious and discoverable is another matter entirely).
With firefox 1.0.3, it seems to bring up the file menu. I'll see what I can do for you C locale IE migrators... .
Created attachment 50172 [details] [review] Proposed patch This patch seems to work fine for German locales as well. It correctly brings up the file menu while activating the location bar/dialog using the C locale.
Committed.