GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 582522
Nautilus should deselect selection when focus is lost
Last modified: 2012-04-26 16:28:16 UTC
When a Nautilus window lose focus, any selection should be deselected or marked in a different way. When using drag & drop, you sometimes don't know which folder will be the target because some folder may already be selected. When you press the delete key you could delete content from the wrong location because you didn't notice your 'current' nautilus window didn't have focus. E.g. two nautilus windows where both windows has a selection. Other information: First posted here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/373927
Created attachment 134591 [details] Nautilus, double selection
This behaviour also effect when you drag and drop files. When a folder is selected, you don't know if the files you're dropping will end up in the correct folder.
(In reply to comment #2) > This behaviour also effect when you drag and drop files. When a folder is > selected, you don't know if the files you're dropping will end up in the > correct folder. > Ops, already said that in the copy & paste :(
Created attachment 134722 [details] OS X solution; Windows does something similar Most other platforms have a 'secondary highlight colour' to use in this sort of situation, e.g. see attached screenshot from OS X. Do gtk themes currently provide such a colour, or do we need to be adding one?
This was implemented for GNOME 3.4.