GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 129795
user-interface bug: icons slide away while selecting them by mouse
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Description of Problem: The problem occurs when viewing with nautilus (as icons view) a directory which is modified (eg. some program is modifying files placed in that directory) When trying to select icons by mouse (first clicking on the empty space, and draging, which creates a selection rectangle) and placing the cursor (still selecting) outside of the icon view area (on the left, right, top or bottom) the icons continue to scroll, even there are no more icons in the direction pointed by cursor. They're scrolling in series of pulses, each pulse occure, i think, when nautilus finds out that the directory has changed and refreshes the icons. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. run nautilus (icons view) (eg on /home/joe ) 2. run some process, that modifies a file in that directory, let say: cat /dev/hda > /home/joe/file1 3. start selecting as described above and place the mouse outside the icons area to force it to scroll Actual Results: Icons are sliding and shaking, when normally the view would stop scrolling. Expected Results: nothing should happen. (the scrolling should stop, when the top of icon list is reached). How often does this happen? Always, as described above Additional Information: I'm using Mandrake Linux 9.1, Nautilus 2.2.1, Gnome 2.2.0
What's the status of this bug? Can you reproduce it an a recent version of GNOME such as GNOME-2.6, or better, GNOME-2.7?
I am allready using linux from a Mandrake 10.0 distribution with GNOME 2.4.1 built 2004-02-24 and Nautilus 2.4.2. And this bug is still there. I haven't checked if this bug occures with more recent versions of GNOME.
I have tested this bug on Mandrake Linux 10.1 rc1 with Gnome 2.6.2 and Nautilus 2.6.3, and it's still there, but now the delay between view scrolling is larger, perhaps because nautilus does not update the view as frequent as it did in previous versions.
I see, thanks for responding.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87701 ***