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Bug 581429 - Use Right Arrow and Left Arrow Keys to Expand/Collapse Folders in Spatial View
Use Right Arrow and Left Arrow Keys to Expand/Collapse Folders in Spatial View
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 105895
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Keyboardability
2.26.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-05-05 09:22 UTC by Jakob Unterwurzacher
Modified: 2009-05-24 07:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26


Description Jakob Unterwurzacher 2009-05-05 09:22:38 UTC 
The right and left arrow keys are currently unused in list view.

The arrow keys are more convenient to use because you have vour fingers on the up/down arrow keys anyway when navigating a folder tree by keyboard. Right/left are usually next to up/down while plus/minus are not.

I suggest that nautilus expands a folder when pressing "+" or right and collapses it when pressing "-" or left.
(BTW: This is how windows explorer's tree view does it)

Other information:

Ubuntu Launchpad question (not mine) about this:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/61908
Comment 1 Jakob Unterwurzacher 2009-05-05 09:31:54 UTC 
This also applies to tree view btw.

In Ubuntu brainstorm, this got >300 votes:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8466/
Comment 2 Alexander Kojevnikov 2009-05-24 07:19:52 UTC 
You can use Shift-Right/Shift-Left or +/- to expand/collapse.

Marking as a duplicate of bug 105895 as it's actually a gtk+ issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105895 ***