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Bug 786909 - Touching on white space in Nautilus does a drag-like select
Touching on white space in Nautilus does a drag-like select
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 777357
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
3.24.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-08-28 13:20 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2017-09-03 00:04 UTC
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2017-08-28 13:20:54 UTC 
Login in to a Wayland session
Open Nautilus (3.24.2)
*TOUCH* on some white space beneath the files
Notice that you get a rubber-band select from the first item (top left) to where you touched.
Touch on a file/folder in the top right, and touch white space somewhere beneath the files.
Notice that the rubberband still starts at the top left.

I think that users would expect the same functionality as when using with a mouse, i.e. the selected files would be deselected.

I've attached a video to try and show this. Generally Nautilus with touch is a bit odd.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1697672/+attachment/4895159/+files/Screencast%20from%2013-06-17%2011%3A54%3A20.webm
Comment 1 Carlos Soriano 2017-08-28 13:23:50 UTC 
The views with touch are not going to work properly anytime unfortunately... The only reasonable way to go is to work more on the GtkFlowBox view and try to make that one the default.
Comment 2 António Fernandes 2017-08-28 13:33:46 UTC 
From the description and video, it looks a lot like bug 777357.
Comment 3 Carlos Soriano 2017-08-28 15:18:36 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 777357 ***