GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 82575
Mouse navigation in list view broken
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Navigation with the mouse in the list view is strange. 1. Double clicking a previously unselected folder will select it, not open it. Double clicking a previously selected folder will start and stop a rename, not open it. I cannot open a folder by clicking the folder icon or name. To actually open the folder I need to either keep the shift key pressed while double clicking, or, douoble click any other column but the icon and name in the "File name" column. 2. Selecting one folder, then expanding the selection by shift clicking, then single click to select the _first_ folder again will start a rename of the first folder, while still keeping the other folders selected, instead of just selecting the first folder.
Recompiled with gcc 3.0.4 rather than the crummy 2.96 shipped with redhat after which it seems to work better!? Double click on a previously unselected now opens it as expected, while double click on a previously selected folder toggles a rename and then opens the folder. Timing issue? Clicking on the icon rather than the filename should probably never start a rename, BTW. Issue number two remains unchanged.
Just for the record. This isn't a compiler issue. I've never had any trouble with gcc 2.96
Well considering half the world uses 2.96, everything should work with it...
I never claimed it was.
Are you still experiencing these problems???? I can't recreate.
I'm using nautilus pulled out of CVS yesterday built with the viciuos build scripts and it's still behaving the same way. To recreate: 1. Open a nautilus windows. 2. Change to list view if it is not already in list view. 3. Single click a row in the list view. 4. Double click the row in the list view. Double clicking (step 4) on the icon will toggle a rename and then open the item.If you double click fast enough the interface wont update as fast and you may not see the rename cycle. Double clicking on the name will toggle a rename and not open the item. (I think i actually have seen it open the item afterwards exactly as above sometime, but I can't reproduce it.) Double clicking on any other column will open the item correctly. 1. Starting a rename of an item when the icon is clicked should in any case always be wrong. 2. If I cannot start a rename by clicking the item in the icon view (which i cannot) I should not be able to do it in the list view either. The right thing to do I believe, is to just drop the click to rename stuff completely from the list view and let the user use the context or the File menu, as the behaviour is in the icon view. There are more issues with the interaction in the list view as compared to the icon view (tab order, keyboard navigation). Should I mention them all here or register new bugs?
To clarify a bit: I mean that you need to double click the _same_ row as you previously single clicked for the problem to show.
Yes please file individual bugs for each issue. Also please scan the bug database first, as I have filed some similar bugs as well. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83552 ***