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Bug 89214 - Double click in List View launches application but also allows renaming
Double click in List View launches application but also allows renaming
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Views: List View
unspecified
Other All
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-07-27 17:07 UTC by Jonathan Taylor
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Jonathan Taylor 2002-07-27 17:07:35 UTC 
Description of Problem:
When you double click a file nautilus will run the
file with default viewer but will also select the
file for renaming.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open Nautilus
2. Change to list view
3. Double click a file

Actual Results:
File is opened but also is set for renaming.

Expected Results:
File should only be opened.

How often does this happen? 
All the time.

Additional Information:
Dave Camp's patch (commited July 26) for Drag and
Drop in list view probabally broke this since I
have tried it before/after the commit.
Comment 1 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-07-27 17:32:36 UTC 
the list view always did this rename stuff. Dave´s dnd stuff isnt the 
issue. anyway this is a dupe of bug 83552. That bug has a patch as 
well that removes click to rename from the list view. 

Talked to calum too about it and he approved.

<rant>
Click to rename just doesn´t work well and neither microsoft or apple 
has ever gotten it right. this is just one of those things where the 
direct manipulation model fails to work right. oh well.
</rant>

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83552 ***
Comment 2 Dave Camp 2002-07-27 18:01:33 UTC 
no, he was talking about something different, that was broken by the
drag and drop patch.
Comment 3 Dave Camp 2002-07-27 18:02:24 UTC 
... which I just checked in a fix for.