Single click opening of selected items in file-selector is confusing
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GTK+ |
Fix Released
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Medium
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| gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
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:/
"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:/
- 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?
| Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| tags: | added: gtk318 rls-x-incoming |
| Changed in gtk: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
| Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Changed in gtk: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
| Changed in gtk: | |
| importance: | Medium → Unknown |
| status: | Invalid → Unknown |
| Changed in gtk: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
| Changed in gtk: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
This bug was fixed in the package gtk+3.0 - 3.18.7-1ubuntu1
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gtk+3.0 (3.18.7-1ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium
* New upstream version merged from Debian
* debian/
revert "single click to browser selected items" behaviour which was
introduced in 3.18, it's confusing to users and was added without
rational. The issue has been reported upstream but didn't get traction
(lp: #1519778)
-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Feb 2016 17:08:06 +0100