The same behaviour applies whether you're selecting items on the desktop or in a folder. Works *fine* in 2.22. If it's screwing up in a particular way, then please can you provide a more detailed explanation with steps to reproduce what's going wrong and what you'd expect nautilus to do.

My nautilus is configured for list view.  In this view mode, the user cannot use the mouse to draw a square to encompass items of interest for selection.

This would present a complication when implementing this fix. When nautilus is set to list mode, clicking on an entry at any column location would select the item.

I have raised a bug (I forget what bug# it was) where a particular column of the list should be designated as the column used for activating the selection of the item (_selector_column_) . Any other column, when clicked on, should have no effect but to reset all currently selected items. This way, the user can depress the left button of the mouse on any row outside of the _selector_column_ to begin drawing the selection square.

Note: Another case to consider is where nautilus is configured to use single-click behavior with list mode.  In this scenario, the user can select an entry by hovering the cursor over the text of an item within the _selector_column_. This selects the item.  When the item is selected, only the text in the _selector_column_ should be highlighted.

This way, the user can still depress the left mouse button anywhere within the nautilus window, outside of the _selector_column_, to draw the selection square.  An item is considered selected when the selection square touch any part of a text in the _selector_column.

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138931 ***