Mouse nav buttons do not work in Nautilus

[Antioch]

Binary package hint: nautilus

The version of Nautilus in Intrepid does not support mappings of the mouse nav buttons (forward and backward) to the forward and backward navigation feature (alt+left, alt+right). This should be fixed.

This is a very common feature found in many programs (firefox, for example) and is highly requested. Almost 700 votes between duplicates (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6186/).

If Ubuntu really does aim to be the distribution to bridge the gap between windows and linux with an easy transition this is a necessary feature. Nautilus has already cloned Window's "Compact View" feature to help easy the transition. Why not add this commonsense feature? I imagine the patch would be very simple. Catch 2 new keypress signals, map them to behavior whose function already exists.

Thank you for your time.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, you are welcome to send a patch for this if you think the change trivial to write

[A. Walton (awalton)]

Patch already exists on the upstream report, may need small update to work with current source. Waiting for the 2.27.x branch to merge it in.

[Antioch (sesshomaru-2k3)]

Do you have a link for it? I haven't been able to find it (which is why I posted this report) and I would like to read the code.

Thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been fixed upstream now

[Antioch (sesshomaru-2k3)]

This doesn't work in Jaunty yet....

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

> This doesn't work in Jaunty yet....
antioch, it's been fixed upstream, that means at Gnome, not in Ubuntu.
The fix is rather a feature so I think it will come in future karmic
(9.10)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

No and that will not be uploaded in jaunty since it's a stable version and the change is a new feature and not an important bug fix to upload to stable

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is fixed in karmic now

[Martin Lindhe (martinlindhe)]

This dont work correctly at all for me. Well it's not working in nautilus, but works in Firefox (as it did before)

I installed Karmic on a clean install and use this mouse:

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c049 Logitech, Inc. G5 Laser Mouse

The trouble i am having is twofold:

1) The mouse click event is only working when Nautilus is in Icon view. I prefer to use List view :-(

2) The back action is actually triggered by the Forward button (which correctly goes Forward in Firefox). It should be triggered by the Back button

With "works in firefox" i mean it works on the same setup with Firefox 3.0 and 3.5

[A. Walton (awalton)]

* The mouse click event is only working when Nautilus is in Icon view. I prefer to use List view :-(

New bug, file it separately (please don't recycle bugs).

* The back action is actually triggered by the Forward button (which correctly goes Forward in Firefox). It should be triggered by the Back button

My mistake. My local mouse config must be different than the rest of the world's since it work(ed) just fine here when I wrote the patch. Unfortunately it's not the case on my other machine, so I fixed it in HEAD.