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Bug 80255 - HIG should mention keyboard shortcuts for navigation
HIG should mention keyboard shortcuts for navigation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-04-29 18:59 UTC by Christian Rose
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:19 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Christian Rose 2002-04-29 18:59:07 UTC 
Currently, the HIG does not mention anything about keyboard shortcuts for
navigational actions (Back, Forward, Up) in, for example, a file manager or
a web browser type of application.

I suggest this proposal (thanks to a lot of people on nautilus-list@gnome.org):
Key combo       Action
----------------------
Alt+LeftArrow   Back
Alt+RightArrow  Forward
Alt+UpArrow     Up

The left and right arrows and their associated actions are identical to
what Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, Galeon, Internet Explorer (and probably
more applications) already use, and Alt+UpArrow is a natural extension of
this scheme.
Comment 1 Calum Benson 2002-11-10 16:03:09 UTC 
Added in 1.0.