Re: [Nautilus-list] File renaming

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Manuel Clos <llanero jazzfree com> writes:

> Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > In Nautilus, Ctrl+O is the open/activate keyboard shortcut. Space does
> > not do anything. Actually, I wasn't able to figure out a way to select
> > multiple files with the keyboard at all. Maybe I did not try hard
> > enough.
> > 
> > If Enter were not the shortcut for rename, we almost definitly would
> > _not_ pick F2, since we don't use function keys for keyboard shortcuts
> > in Nautilus. I'm not responsible for choosing keyboard bindiings, but
> > I imagine it would be something like Ctrl+R.
> 
> But this has the inconvenience that "Rename" does not begans with "R" in
> other languages ... anyway, I agree with Ctrl+R.
> 

Unfortunately, the same criticism applies to most of our
keybindings. It's apparently somewhat controversial whether keyboard
shortcuts like this should be internationalized.

 - Maciej