GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 626004
behaviour bug when selecting files with keyboard
Last modified: 2011-08-18 20:44:33 UTC
when i type letters to select a file or a folder in nautilus, the focus goes to the small text field which appears in the lower right corner. this prevents ctrl+c and ctrl+x from working, because it applies to the text field instead of the selected file. this forces the user to use the mouse to gain focus and is very annoying. it appeared first within the last two ubuntu upgrades. -michael
Why are you running the unstable version 2.29? Does this still happen in 2.30?
i'm running ubuntu at the current version... of course it will be in 2.3 unless somebody fixes it. to me it looks more like a design flaw than a technical error. i'm having this on all my ubuntu machienes and it has been for a while now... i'm just getting annoyed enough to finally file it here :/ you can repeat this very easy (in maybe 5 secounds): 1. navigate in a folder 2. look for a file 3. press the first letters of the files name until it is selected 4. press strg+c (or whatever you use to copy) now you can already notice, that the "action bar" at the bottom wont say "xyz will be copied if[...]" (it does when you click on a file and then press your copy-shortcut) if you press paste nothing happens, because it wasn't even copied in the first place. to validate my wrong focus theory you can do the following: 1. select some text somewhere 2. press your copy shortkey 3. navigate in a folder 4. press the first letters of a file to select it 5. press the shortkey for paste now the text you copied ends up in the small text field in the lower right corner. this proves that the focus is now there. the annoying part is, that you don't expect this behaviour. you navigate somewhere, think you have copied something and when you navigate to an entirely different place you just wonder why you cannot paste :/
now i'm on the 2.30 - it's not fixed
This is exactly the expected behavior. By changing this other folks would complain that you cannot cut or copy your search text anymore. Closing as WONTFIX.
(In reply to comment #4) > This is exactly the expected behavior. By changing this other folks would > complain that you cannot cut or copy your search text anymore. > Closing as WONTFIX. What about passing the copy action to the selected file if there's no selected search text, and if there's selected search text then copy that.. that would cover both usecases in a sane way.. also out of curiosity have you discuss this with nautilus developers?..