https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215502 thoenig@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |rocallahan@novell.com ------- Comment #4 from thoenig@novell.com 2006-10-27 12:23 MST ------- (In reply to comment #3)
If Backspace means "go back in history" in Windows, we should do that. I'll be massively confused if I ever switch to Firefox (I use Epiphany, where Backspace sadly does nothing), but I can live with that.
I just checked IE, and in fact it maps backspace to 'back'. And, so does Opera.
I just discovered that you can hit Shift-Space to go up. Who would have thought :)
I guess this is just highly non-standard. Unix-heads are used to the backspace behavior from less(1), but maybe no one else in the world is.
In the morning I walked up and down the floors of the Nuremberg office and asked Firefox users--yah, they were confused why I am asking things like "What shortcut do you use for 'back'", but they kindly answered all my questions. 1/3 were using backspace, 1/3 were using Alt-Left, 1/3 just push a mouse button. Of course, the backspace users disliked the change; the others just do not care. Now, the backspace behavior to scroll up with backspace is a widely used in other *nix applications than less(1). E.g. man(1) and mutt(1) use it, too. However, it looks to me as only console application are using backspace to scroll by default. I can not see a common standard key when looking at graphical applications, it's just looks similar to the whole Ctrl-q, Ctrl-w shortcut mess. Adding Robert back to CC as we lost him. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.