Back button visuals and function unclear in Unity

[Mikko Ohtamaa]

Maverick Meerkat beta.

See this previous report

Steps to reproduce

1. Open Files & Folders
2. Click documents
3. Press Left arrow button on the top screen (it looks like grayed out)

Actual result:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/638285
You get back to Files & Folders root

Expected result:

You are navigated to back

Note: This seems to be some sort of state issue with button active effect. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not, both the active visual effect or what happens on the button press (they do not seem to be connected)

1) Either there is a genuine bug with the button active and disabled state
2) The logic what should happen when pressing these buttons has too complex and unínituive logic to be understood

Tooltips might help?
Nothing happens OR Left arrow button greyed out effect is removed when navigating to a new folder

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Thanks for your feedback. This is a design issue, so I'm linking the bug with an ayatana-design issue.

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

Hi Mikko, thanks for filing this bug. I'm marking this as Won't Fix because we are dropping the back/forward buttons from Unity natty's dash, due to the confusion it caused.

[Mikko Ohtamaa (mikko-red-innovation)]

Thanks Neil.

That's more like "Fixed" :)