Comment 14 for bug 431073

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I'd like to hear some more arguments why this behaviour should be changed. The
bug report indicates that someone accidentally pressed space bar - that doesn't
seem like a good enough reason to change the current mapping.

In GTK, space is used to 'Toggle selected state of focused check box, radio
button, or toggle button' - Nautilus would seem consistent with this.

The major inconsistency is with web browsers, where space scrolls down. Many
people learn shortcuts in that context and *could* expect similar behaviour in
their web browser.

What do Finder and Windows Explorer do?

Whatever happens, I don't see a good argument for not using the space bar as a
short cut for something. Other apps use it, I don't see why Nautilus shouldn't.
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