GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 598128
Shift-click selection causes first directory to expand in Tree View in Nautilus
Last modified: 2009-10-18 14:43:34 UTC
Goal is to do multiple file/directory selection in tree view, but the first directory expands instead of doing selection. 1. Open a dir with subdirs in Spatial or Browser mode. 2. Set to List View 3. Click on the first (beginning) of a list of files/directories you want to select. 4. Move the mouse pointer over the last (end) of the files/directories you want to select. 5. Do NOT move the mouse anymore, such as when you use a touchpad. 6. Hold down SHIFT. 7. Click the mouse on that last file. EXPECTED: All files/directories between and including the first and last files will be selected. ACTUAL: The very first directory is expanded. The selection does not change. ----- More Info ----- This looks like another symptom of Bug 590187. The mouse-click here is acting like a mouse-click on the expand/contract arrow in list view. Note, in step 6 above, you only have to tap SHIFT so that the arrow is black.
There's another bug on unintended expansion of the first visible folder here: bug 560793 (dupe of bug 555109).
I can't reproduce here with an up-to-date Fedora 12 (GNOME 2.28). Could you please try to reproduce the bug again with GTK+ 2.18 and Nautilus 2.28?
Hrm, GTK+ bug 555109 describes a very similar bug (and a fix for it has been committed in GTK+ 2.18), so I'm marking this as a duplicate. Feel free to reopen if GTK+ 2.18 doesn't solve the issue for you. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 555109 ***