This document describes the keyboard and mouse navigation model used in the default Caja views in detail. This is useful as a a guide for people implementing a Caja view or something else that wants to have a feel that is compatible with Caja. *********** Icon view ******************** Keyboard: ========= Navigation and selection: When the focus is on the icon view you can move the currently selected icon by using: Arrow Keys - moves one step in the direction Tab - moves to the "next" icon in order (i.e. at the end of one row, go to the first icon the next row) Shift Tab - moves to the "previous" icon in order Home - moves to the first icon End - moves to the last icon In order to allow multiple selection the above navigation keys can be combined with the Control key to move the keyboard focus without affecting the current selection. If you use normal movement (not using control) all the previously selected icons will be deselected. If several icons are selected and there is no keyboard focus you press up or left will start navigating from the topmost leftmost icon, while pressing down or right will start from the bottommost rightmost icon. This works the same way if you hold down Control. To select or deselect an icon position the keyboard focus on it and press ctlr-space. ctrl-space with no keyboard focus produces a keyboard focus at the first selected icon, or the first one if none are selected. In manual layout (and especially, on the desktop) the keyboard arrow keys work in a slightly different way. To allow all icons to be reached the closest icon in the quadrant of the direction selected will be used as the "next" icon when navigating. Other keyboard shortcuts: Return, Keypad Return - Activate the selected objects Space (without control) - Activate the selected objects Escape - Undo icon stretching if in progress Alt Left - go back Alt Right - go forward Alt Up - go up a directory Alt Down - enter directory / activate selection Shift-F10 bring up context menu for selection, or the directory context menu if nothing is selected Ctrl-F10 bring up context menu for directory Other key presses are used for typeahead search In rename mode: Escape - Cancel rename Return, Keypad Return - Finish rename Mouse: ====== In double click mode: Clicking on an icon selects it and deselects all others on BUTTON_PRESS. Dragging does the default dnd file operation. Clicking on blank space deselect all selected icons. Doesn't allow dragging. Double clicking (both clicks on the same icon) with no modifiers activates the clicked file. (And deselects the others due to the first click.) Clicking when Control (Shift can also be used, which is not written out below) is held down can be used to do multiple selections. Control-click on empty space does nothing. Control-click on unselected icon selects it on BUTTON_PRESS Control-click on selected icon de-selects it on BUTTON_RELEASE Control-double click does nothing Control can be held down while starting a drag While doing a drag modifers affect the operation the drag causes: Control - Copy the files Shift - Move the files Alt - Open a menu with the available alternatives All the basic clicks are typically done with the left button, but can be done with the other buttons to. [Do we want this?] However some of the buttons also have special operations: Right-click on a selected icon opens the context menu for the selected icons. Right-click on empty space opens the context menu for the directory. Middle-button drag always opens the menu with possible operations on drop. In single click mode: Single click mode work just like double click mode except single clicks on icons activate the icon on button release if you didn't drag, didn't hold down for 1.5 secs or clicked twice within the double-click time. *********** List view ******************** [TODO: Add stuff here]