Arrow keys navigation broken since upgrade to 11.10

[Ricardo Graça]

Since the upgrade of Ubuntu from 11.04 to 11.10, navigating with the arrow keys in nautilus has become much harder than it used to be since it's no longer possible to use the right/left keys to navigate through all the files. E.g. in icon view when selecting the first file in a row and pressing the right arrow to go through all the files in that row, when the last file in the row is selected, pressing right arrow key again doesn't select the first file in the bottom row.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Set nautilus to icon view
2) Open a folder with enough files to display several rows of icons
3) Select the top left icon in the navigation panel
4) Press and hold the right arrow key

Expected results:
- Upon reaching the last icon in the row, the selection advances to the leftmost icon in the row below the current one

Actual results:
- The selection is stuck on the rightmost icon of the current row

This causes great unnecessary effort to select files sequentially, as now I have to press down when reaching the last icon in a row, and then press the left key a great number of times, or keep it pressed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 3 22:22:28 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.