Hmm. I also set my Firefox and chrome up to match their default
configuration on all other OS's, ie so that backspace works as the back
key (in FF it's just setting browser.backspace_action = 0, but in chrome
you need a plugin). I just find it much more convenient than having to
search for two keys to press.

My guess is that upstream will say the same thing regarding the
backspace key - that it doesn't mesh nicely with the way quick search is
implemented when you go back - but IMO it's a real pity they've done it
this way, as I find it much slower to use nautilus now, both in that
that 'back' takes you into the previous quick search, which you then
have to cancel to see the whole contents of the folder, and in that
backspace doesn't do anything any more. (And in that you can't right-
click off away from file name to get the 'New Folder' context menu,
which was something they introduced in nautilus 3.4 as an improvement
and have now taken away again.)

Of course, a good solution would be to make all this configurable - but
this doesn't match gnome's philosophy of reducing configuration and
usability :) wherever possible.

As a workaround, Dolphin supports backspace to go back and is generally
a much better file manager than nautilus, both in usability and in
number of features. (It's just a pity that kioclient isn't as capable as
the gvfs tools for when you're trying to integrate scripts with a GUI
file manager.)

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