Comment 13 for bug 1020756

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In , Kris-z (kris-z) wrote :

(In reply to comment #0)
> Users that want to navigate into cells horizontally (as I can see, a non
> frecuent use case) will need to press Ctrl+<Left|Right>. Users can still move
> to the parent node with the Backspace key, without collapsing anything.

Just to give a little background, this was tried in 2006, see:

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105895#c27

And reverted a year later due to complaints:

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105895#c29

From there on I pretty much gave up. As I mentioned in comment 29 in 105985; a sophisticated plan is likely needed where you "detect" the kind of tree view (list or tree, many editable cells or not, long horizontally stretching rows, etc.) and base the keyboard bindings based on that.