GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 691601
Hard to go back a level (i.e. from Keyboard to System settings main window) using the keyboard
Last modified: 2013-01-16 09:37:47 UTC
In nautilus (at least in 3.4, I do not have a more recent version on my system), backspace goes one level up in the filesystem hiearchy (i.e. from /foo/bar to /foo). I would love it if this behaviour were the same for gnome-control-center. Currently, one needs to press shift+tab, left arrow and enter to go back. Backspace does not seem to be bound to anything and would seem to be a logical and consistent choice for this. Also, after going up, focus is on "All settings". Thas it a bit unfortunate as nothing can be done with this button - one can only press tab and select another system setting component with arrows. Why not focus the first component or (better) the component that the user had been interacting with before pressing backspace and going one level up.
Another idea would be the 'Back' key
Yes, but that is not present on many keyboards if I am not mistaken. (I have remapped mine to page down as it is virtually useless). For any newcomers, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409230 is related.
Another option would be to mimick the alt+left/right/up behaviour (that is still there, is not it?) from nautilus, even though it seems to be an overkill because it would need implementing history. But alt+up would do I guess.
You can already use Ctrl+W. commit 81385c6350557336c6c78aa7cd268c944f88a9af Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Mon Jan 14 15:24:33 2013 +0100 shell: Add support for the "Back" keyboard key and Alt+Up https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691601
*** Bug 681653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***