Thanks for taking the time to report this.

It seems that ".config/nautilus/accels" was dropped as part of the transition to GAction [0]. I don't know if there are plans to bring it back. You may file a new bug report about this.

With relation to "Go Up", the standard keyboard short is [Alt]+[Up]. Nautilus used to have a secondary shortcut for "Go Up", and that was [Backpace], but it was removed.[1] Unfortunately, like any other change, it can break usage habits, but I hope you can find [Alt]+[Up] more useful, given it's likeness to the other navigation shortcuts: [Alt]+[Left] for 'Go Back', [Alt]+[Right] for 'Go Forward' and [Alt]+[Down] for 'Go Down'/'Open Folder'.

This particular issue has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


[0] https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=ce0ce798b9818b37343196dc66def9464eb951ab

[1] This (mis)use of [Backpace] goes back to old Microsoft Windows Explorer versions. However, it was not logical for [Backspace], which is a destructive key like [Delete], to be used like this. There isn't even a consistent use across applications: some web browsers use [Backspace] as "Go Back", not "Go Up". Also, it conflicted with search. This is a case where we shouldn't have been blindly following what Windows does.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 692648 ***

(In reply to António Fernandes from comment #1)
> Thanks for taking the time to report this.
> 
> It seems that ".config/nautilus/accels" was dropped as part of the
> transition to GAction [0]. I don't know if there are plans to bring it back.
> You may file a new bug report about this.
> 
> With relation to "Go Up", the standard keyboard short is [Alt]+[Up].
> Nautilus used to have a secondary shortcut for "Go Up", and that was
> [Backpace], but it was removed.[1] Unfortunately, like any other change, it
> can break usage habits, but I hope you can find [Alt]+[Up] more useful,
> given it's likeness to the other navigation shortcuts: [Alt]+[Left] for 'Go
> Back', [Alt]+[Right] for 'Go Forward' and [Alt]+[Down] for 'Go Down'/'Open
> Folder'.
> 
> This particular issue has already been reported into our bug tracking
> system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.
> 
> 
> [0]
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/
> ?id=ce0ce798b9818b37343196dc66def9464eb951ab
> 
> [1] This (mis)use of [Backpace] goes back to old Microsoft Windows Explorer
> versions. However, it was not logical for [Backspace], which is a
> destructive key like [Delete], to be used like this. There isn't even a
> consistent use across applications: some web browsers use [Backspace] as "Go
> Back", not "Go Up". Also, it conflicted with search. This is a case where we
> shouldn't have been blindly following what Windows does.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 692648 ***

Ah thanks for clarifying, the removal was unintentioned (I didn't even know it exists) and I don't see a reason to not add it again if people use it.

All of those decisions make perfect sense, however, is there any way to use the GAction stuff to alter the built in accels or is such functionality planned at some point? Who knows what crazy key combinations some people like, it would be really nice for people with unusual setups to be able to customize it.

*** Bug 752277 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Is no one going to comment further on this? The keybindings should be customizable

(In reply to Max Ehrlich from comment #5)
> Is no one going to comment further on this? The keybindings should be
> customizable

Commenting what? Is said in the previous comment that the removal of supporting that was unintentioned and that there is no reason against having it...
Just that someone has to find the time, based on its priorities, to implement it with the GAction stuff.

So there is going to be a way to customize keybindings reintroduced? I'm asking because the gnome project has had a history of removing customization options in the name of making things simpler and its starting to get old.

(In reply to Max Ehrlich from comment #7)
> So there is going to be a way to customize keybindings reintroduced? I'm
> asking because the gnome project has had a history of removing customization
> options in the name of making things simpler and its starting to get old.

Given that the behaviour with this account is repeated, I have to ask to follow GNOME code of conduct as here https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/CodeOfConduct and use Bugzilla tool appropiately.
Thanks.

I don't see any violation by me of the code of conduct. You are being very dismissive of my concerns and it is extremely frustrating. If you don't want to discuss a closed bug then please move to my open bug at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752666

*** Bug 750388 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to António Fernandes from comment #1)

> [1] This (mis)use of [Backpace] goes back to old Microsoft Windows Explorer
> versions. However, it was not logical for [Backspace], which is a
> destructive key like [Delete], to be used like this.
> This is a case where we
> shouldn't have been blindly following what Windows does.

It's not clear what supports your reasoning. 
If wikipedia is a reference, it clearly states:

  "The backspace key is commonly used to go back a page (or up one level)
   when exploring folders in graphical environments"
  -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace#Common_use


One thing sure, is that it allowed *one-hand navigation*, 
with arrows, enter and... backspace. 
That's a problem with Alt-<arrow>.

About conflicts, currently backspace does actually nothing.

Your post Mister Soriano is clearly an ill mannered violation of the code of conduct and I demand that you apologise to the reporter.
Not to mention that this is simply not a duplicate of 692648.

Hello Gents!

I know it is not feature request ticket, but I found it best place to sign: please bring back the backpace as "move up one in folder". 
If you use mouse hard to use Alt + arrow combination and you can't use them parallel. Backspace hasn't destructive meaning and it functioned well in previous versions of Nautilus.

Thank you!

The discussion on this topic suggests that fixing this bug is against Gnome policies, so it's not going to be fixed in the future. The only solution is to use another file manager.

(In reply to Jonas from comment #14)
> The only solution is to use another file manager.

or use this one-line patch (from the bug reporter [1]). It might be some struggle for some people to recompile nautilus, but apparently much less struggle than commenting and expecting some change here.


--- src/nautilus-window.c   2015-07-31 10:18:29.313898480 -0400
+++ src/nautilus-window.c   2015-07-31 10:21:20.701351684 -0400

-   nautilus_application_add_accelerator (app, "win.up", "<alt>Up");
+   nautilus_application_add_accelerator (app, "win.up", "BackSpace");



[1] http://superuser.com/questions/910168/set-nautilus-up-action-to-backspace

(In reply to Max Ehrlich from comment #9)
> I don't see any violation by me of the code of conduct. You are being very
> dismissive of my concerns and it is extremely frustrating. If you don't want
> to discuss a closed bug then please move to my open bug at
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752666

To be clear, any comment that does not relate directly to the bug report is using inappropriately bugzilla. Specifically "I'm asking because the gnome project has had a history of removing customization options in the name of making things simpler and its starting to get old." which is unnecessary and doesn't provide anything to help fixing this bug.

I'm not sure where the some comments understood that we don't want this. I said clearly my thoughs at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750107#c6