GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 787758
Moving through the directory structure by mouse arrow buttons
Last modified: 2017-10-09 13:09:29 UTC
It’s possible to use "Alt + Arrow-Up/Down" but this doesn’t apply to the mouse buttons "Forward/Backward". In Nautilus those buttons seem to be mapped to "Alt + Arrow-Left/Right", what isn’t implemented in the file chooser widget, so these buttons need to be mapped to "Alt + Arrow-Up/Down" there, for making them work.
So, you want the back/forward buttons to actually do up/down? That seems like it'll be confusing and disliked. I think the real solution is to add proper back/forward actions, so Bug 777694.
At the moment, the arrow buttons on my mouse do nothing. So it would be nice if I could navigate through the file hierarchy. Mapping them to the already existing "Alt + arrow-up/down" makes more sense (in my point of view). So that would be a separate issue of #777694, since this bug originally targets the implementation of "Alt + arrow-left/right". You mixed it already with your comment from 7.8.2017, but the mapping of up/down could be done already – later when left/right may get implemented, you still could swap the mouse arrow mapping. ;)
(In reply to Frank from comment #2) > You mixed it already with your comment from 7.8.2017 Did you mean this? (In reply to Daniel Boles from comment #4) > A more general question is whether up/down/back/forward should have buttons > for mouse activation, not just keyboard accelerators. I was actually talking about GtkButtons that could be clicked on by the mouse, but I see how that was ambiguous! (In reply to Frank from comment #2) > up/down could be done already – later when left/right may get implemented, > you still could swap the mouse arrow mapping. ;) I guess you're right. I have no strong opinion or rush to create a patch, though.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 721151 ***