GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 336196
Unable to select multiple files in List View with the mouse
Last modified: 2006-04-04 22:13:13 UTC
In the list view it's currently impossible to select multiple folders/files using the mouse. This comes from the fact that the whole row for a file/folde is mouse sensitive. (You can click everywhere in a file entry row to open the file even on the Modification Date..) If only the first column (or even better: only the icon and file name) of the list view would be mouse sensitive one could easily select multiple files and folders. Currently everytime you try to "rectangle-select" multiple items in the list view, you drag the first item into the void :-) (Rectangle-selection is currently possible if you resize the window to find an empty spot.) BTW, I use the nautilus-action "Open in Terminal" quite heavy. If this one would be fixed. One could use "Open in Terminal" for a list-view folder too. (Which is currently impossible too. To sum it up - It would be really cool if this could be fixed! :-) Other information:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94618 ***