To summarise arguments for and against the change, as valid for Ubuntu (GNOME thingy excluded)<br><br>Against:<br>1) Standard cross-platform, cross-browser (IE, Opera) behaviour is 'page-back'.<br>2) This is the current expected behaviour and people used to it will have to learn not to use it.
<br><br>For:<br>1) Shortcutting 'backspace' to 'page-back' is a usability bug that can cause data loss.<br><br>Conclusion:<br>As far as I'm concerned, fixing a bug that can cause data loss is more important than keeping backwards compatibility.
<br>You might say I'm slightly biased in this matter however, since
I've lost data to this bug a number of times now and I was very pleased
to hear it was finally fixed.<br><br>Note:<br>Having 'backspace' do
anything other than 'delete last character' in an application where
data entry is a primary use is not exactly a clever thing to do.
Following this logic, having backspace shortcut to do nothing when a
text field is out of focus would be better behaviour than 'page-up'.
<br><span class="sg"><br>Arwyn</span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 21/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jan Claeys</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@janc.be">lists@janc.be</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Op vrijdag 20-10-2006 om 16:32 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Hubert<br>Figuiere:<br>> > Even worse: Nautilus uses backspace = one directory level up, so<br>> > Firefox's new behaviour isn't consistent with the GNOME file browser
<br>> > either...<br>><br>> That is because Firefox is not a Gnome application.<br>><br>> It is like saying a KDE application have a UI different from it Gnome<br>> counterpart.<br><br>Well, exactly, but like Andreas Lloyd said:
<br><br> Actually, if you check the upstream bug report, you'll find that<br> this is the new intended behaviour for Firefox on Linux,<br> apparently since it is more consistent with the way that GNOME
<br> and KDE filebrowsers work, and now they won't change it back.<br><br>So it's <a href="http://Mozilla.org">Mozilla.org</a> who said that they made this change for<br>compatibility with (a.o.) the GNOME file browser, while this reason is
<br>completely bogus, because it does *not* behave like that in the default<br>GNOME file browser (at least not in Ubuntu).<br><br><br><br>--<br>Jan Claeys<br><br><br>--<br>ubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">
ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a><br></blockquote></div><br>