[list view] left arrow does not recurse

Bug #1249095 reported by Sam Carrey
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Files
Fix Released
Medium
Jeremy Wootten

Bug Description

Not sure whether this is a bug or intended behaviour.

When in pantheon list view, I can use right arrow to expand a folder. When a few folders deep into the tree I would expect the left arrow to move back up the tree, closing the folders as it goes, like what happens in nautilus, and osx finder.

i.e.

Home
 - Documents
  - M250
   - Doc1
   ------------------------
   - Doc2 (selected)
   ------------------------

If I've got Doc2 selected, pressing left arrow should take me to 'M250' with this folder also being closed. Left again would take me to 'Documents', and left again would take me to 'Home'. Keeping on pressing the left arrow would eventually take you up to the parent with all child folders closed.

In pantheon, in order to move up the tree, I have to use the up arrow until I get to M250, then left to close it, then up again to the previous folder etc etc... it's all not very fluid at all. As I said, I'm not sure whether this is a bug or intended behaviour. If it is intended behaviour, maybe an option in eOS to use nautilus instead. My preference is actually column view but that crashes all the time in pantheon and is unusable.

Tags: view

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Sam Carrey (samwillc)
tags: added: pantheon
summary: - Panthoen list view left arrow does not recurse
+ Pantheon list view - left arrow does not recurse
Cody Garver (codygarver)
affects: elementaryos → pantheon-files
Changed in pantheon-files:
assignee: nobody → elementary UX Team (elementary-design)
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: - Pantheon list view - left arrow does not recurse
+ [list view] left arrow does not recurse
tags: added: view
removed: pantheon
Revision history for this message
Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

Definitely agree with this bug report. If right arrow opens a folder, it would make sense that left arrow should take you "up" to focus the parent folder

Changed in pantheon-files:
assignee: elementary UX Team (elementary-design) → nobody
status: New → Confirmed
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone: none → 0.2
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten) wrote :

In the linked branch, in list view, the left and right arrow keys expand and collapse the current row (if possible). The up and down arrow keys move between adjacent rows.

Changed in pantheon-files:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
milestone: 0.2 → freya-beta2
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone: freya-beta2 → 0.2
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