GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 758649
Single click opening of selected items in file-selector is confusing
Last modified: 2016-02-21 05:31:25 UTC
Since the GNOME 3.18 upgrade I keep opening files by error in the gedit file-selector. It took me a while to understand, what's going on why sometime single click acts like double click it seems to be due to this change https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk%2B/commit/?id=fb0a13b7 "file chooser: Allow activating without double-click Interpret a unmodified primary click on the selection like a double click. This makes it possible to activate a file or open a folder without using double-click." That has several issues: - the behaviour seems inconsistant, it's not easy to understand what's going on as an user (I first though my mouse buttons was having issues) - if you double click on a selected directory to browse it, it opens it with the first click then open an item directly in the directory, which is not what you want (seems https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757950 was meant to address that but it doesn't here) - if you select an item, switch to another windows and click back on the file-selector to focus it and manage to hit the selected item then it's opened... I'm unsure what the issue the change was trying to address, if that's about touch devices maybe the behaviour shouldn't impact pointer devices?
There have been changes in GTK+ 3.18.5 following bug 758065 that should ameliorate the issue. Could you test that version?
I'm already using 3.18.5, sorry forgot to specify that in the description (though the fix I mentioned in the section item as not working is new in that version)
> - if you select an item, switch to another windows and click back on the > file-selector to focus it and manage to hit the selected item then it's > opened... That's the case with any other click-activated ui element, like the sidebar, or buttons, or anything else.
> That's the case with any other click-activated ui element, like the sidebar, or buttons, or anything else. Hum, indeed, I don't often hit issues with that in other places though (clicking on the sidebar in nautilus you can go back to the previous location with one action, where if gedit opens a document you have to close it, open the menu again, click "other document", go through directories again in the file-selector and then select your document, quite tedious)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 758065 ***