Comment 20 for bug 14838

(In reply to comment #6)
> Thanks for the report and comments. There is certainly a bug in spatial mode,
> that there is no obvious way to "go back", and the backspace key was a very poor
> choice by upstream for that action. But the old behaviour, leaving windows open,
> is irritating for the majority of use cases. While there are clearly specific
> use cases where you want to leave a folder open and open a subfolder alongside
> it, most navigation is with the intent to shift focus to the new directory, not
> split focus between the current and the new directory.
>
> For that reason I've asked that we use the new default behaviour on
> double-clicking a folder.
>
> You can retain the old behaviour using the pref Seb pointed out, or you can
> shift-double-click the folder the leave the parent open while opening the folder.
>
> I'll file a separate bug on a good UI for "going back".
>

I think you might have to take the "benevolent" out of your title if this kind of
thing goes on a week before release. This is going to lose Ubuntu a huge amount
of credibility.

"I don't like spatial mode! So I will ruin it, and then complain that upstream
didn't predict
how I was going to break it and provide a fix."

This is a very odd decision so close to release. I honestly can't believe it.