GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 667199
Double click to open file is only valid when the file(directory) is selected.
Last modified: 2014-02-18 04:13:41 UTC
Double click something in the folder will not open it until it is selected. This is a weired bug, since it only appear in some occasions. I spend a lot time to find out under what condition it occurs. I have tune the double click speed of the mouse the 150ms, under which I can easily double click while two single click will not be recognised as a double click. /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/double_click 150 Under this condition I find the bug. When tuning the double click speed to some larger value, saying 500ms, this bug didn't occur when I tested it. Finally I find when I double click at a extremely high speed which I can only click out successfully at some time, double click will be OK. It seems that nautilus handles double click in a strange way. I have installed a pcman file manager and it is OK when I double click without selecting the item.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. However, you are using version 2.30 which is too old and not supported anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use. By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME. Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME (3.2 or 3.0).
(In reply to comment #1) > Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. > However, you are using version 2.30 which is too old and not supported anymore. > GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there > will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use. > > By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new > functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a > newer version of GNOME. > Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer > version of GNOME (3.2 or 3.0). I have finally upgraded to GNOME 3, and found this bug still valid. My nautilus is now 3.4.2, on a Debian Wheezy system. It is a annoying bug, considering the difficulty to find out it's exact behaviour.
I am not able to reproduce this here on Nautilus 3.6 (but I don't think anything changed specifically in this regard since 3.4). What are the exact steps to reproduce? I did the following: - gsetting set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse double-click 150 - open nautilus - try to double click an unselected file Does it perhaps happen within a specific view (icon/list), or only on the desktop?
R(In reply to comment #3) > I am not able to reproduce this here on Nautilus 3.6 (but I don't think > anything changed specifically in this regard since 3.4). > > What are the exact steps to reproduce? I did the following: > - gsetting set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse double-click 150 > - open nautilus > - try to double click an unselected file > > Does it perhaps happen within a specific view (icon/list), or only on the > desktop? You reminded me to test different views. Yes, it happens in _icon_ and _compact_ view, not _list_ view. And I test it not on the desktop, just in normal nautilus. To produce it, first, select a folder, and double click on it. Find the double click speed that is enough to open a selected folder, but not to fast. Then use the same double click speed to click a unselected folder, and that folder will not open. If you double click extremely fast, say, less than 100ms, then you can open an unselected folder.
I think this was fixed between bug 688281 and bug 704289. Feel free to reopen if it's not fixed yet in 3.10.