Backspace acts as Up and not as back

[Jānis Kangarooo]

Go to /
Go to user folder
press "Backspace"
Instead of getting back to / it acts as UP and youre in /home/
instead
it should act as back

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-41.89-generic 2.6.32.59+drm33.24
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-41-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 13 21:30:45 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, there is no reason it should act as "back" rather than "lower directory" though, if you disagree with the behaviour you should open an upstream bug on bugzilla.gnome.org

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

Back-space = back not up-space

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not sure what that means, but on a text line backspace deletes the previous letter, on a path it deletes the previous directory...

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

Since on programms it has different use then i can add more relevant info-
In web brosers it acts as back not "cd .. of domains current place"..

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

On FF backspace goes back.
BTW why Thunar works like that also? Couse thats what people expect it to be couse it has been like that for long time.
FF wont make backspace to work as "up folder"
Thats about linux.
We can check also other platform where is most users who would like to start using in simply understandable way. And that way is also in all Windows Web browsers and in Windows Nautilus/Thunar - My Computer/File Explorer. Backspace is been default for going back for most computer users witch are using computer for doing something easy and fast and not for learning computer and for programms that they dont use some different shortcuts. Global commands are the same. Where is only few ppl using programm with different shortcuts they cant make other ppl to start doing everything different way but just their own programm.
Heres how many have "backspace to go back" programms - http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp and heres how many use backspace for back http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp and you cant find more ppl then thouse who wants backspace to be back couse even Linux users want it to be back.
Most times you already came from down folder so backspace will make back as u think alt+up is doing. And sometimes u can use shortcuts and then using alt+left is more then usually needed. Ussual need needs one key and ussual needs are back from where u came from. So if now for back is needed some 2key combo its waste of time for forwarding and going around and waste of time for finding out about it and waste for thouse who found and use this new way couse allways need to waste 2keypress time. So back you up.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Firefox on Linux has for years by default only treated Backspace as deleting the previous character in a text field.

Nautilus 3.6 now does the same thing. To go back in Nautilus 3.6, use Alt+←; to go up, use Alt+↑.

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

That can be changed couse users mostly are using commonly used
shortcuts and expecting them to work like that therefore they can use
intuitively any system. Theres not many who dont need easy usable one
click shortcuts. And they who dont need it can change to what they
need separately and inst needed global change for most users to adapt
to few users.
Many years strange and wrong things happen. Thats not an argument.
Also without argument Now many bad decisions things to Ubuntu
happening also without need of most users for Unity. Same way
backspace isnt used intuitively in Firefox and Nautilus as most users
need. Most clicks for non-text backspace clicking is for getting back
and not up. From statistics is seenable how many possible can be not
using backspace for back and also many from them also use other
systems witch has backspace as back.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Sorry, it's a bad idea to have Backspace mean two widely different things. That's a good way to accidentally lose data.

Alt+← is the standard for "Go Back" on Linux:
http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/unstable/input-keyboard.html
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Keyboard_Shortcuts

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

Thats a different bug if you loose data. so post a bug to data
loosing programm