Ctrl+Shift Select doesn't select a new set of files

Thanks for your report, that's known upstream you can track it and make your comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410497

the bug should be fixed for the icon view in intrepid now, that's still an issue when using the list view though

Is it something like this you'd like?
(Sorry about the size)

@Macrus: Yeah that is exactly what I'm talking about. I believe any selection list in any context to do with computers should have this feature, it's so useful.

Neil, patch is upstream now - let's hope someone sees it and finds it enough useful for inclusion.

@Marcus Carlson: You are the man. That's been annoying me for about 10 years now. ;)

thank you for your work there, you might want to send the patch the nautilus-list for review since the nautilus hackers are usually too busy to keep up with the number of comments made in bugzilla nowadays

this has been fixed upstream commit is at : http://git.gnome.org/cgit/nautilus/commit/?id=8fe1a569690abd8a472041886b883b55852d445f

the bug is fixed in karmic and lucid

the bug is fixed in karmic and lucid now!

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.29.1-0ubuntu1

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nautilus (1:2.29.1-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Make browser mode the default
    - Add split view mode
    - Browser UI reorganization
    - Better background support on multi-monitor setups
    - Support new "default location" on mounts
    - Add extension api to lookup NautilusFileInfo objects
    - Make the search toolbar button a toggle button (lp: #57210, #392292)
    - Change text selection when using f2 several times (lp: #55996)
    - Ctrl+shift does multiple range selection in list view (lp: #148297)
    - Correctly toggle the show hidden files option (lp: #318151)
    - Opening of unknown files types displays a list of softwares (lp: #435780)
    - Fix the end key action in the image details (lp: #448786)
    - Use correct Borders for the sidebar (lp: #380838)
    - Display tooltips over sidebar bookmarks (lp: #432485)
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated gnome-desktop requirement
  * debian/nautilus-data.gconf-defaults:
    - don't set browser mode there since that's upstream default now
  * debian/patches/01_manpage.patch:
    - the change is upstream now
  * debian/patches/91_correct_rgba_use.patch:
    - change by Cody Russell to fix rgba issue (lp: #491521)
  * debian/rules:
    - updated shlib version
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:14:33 +0100

Thanks Marcus, several months later it's finally in lucid and apparently
karmic. When should doing an `apt-get dist-upgrade` reflect the change?

Do you work for Canonical, or do you do this for fun?

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 15:37, Marcus Carlson <email address hidden> wrote:

> Neil, patch is upstream now - let's hope someone sees it and finds it
> enough useful for inclusion.
>
> --
> Ctrl+Shift Select doesn't select a new set of files
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148297
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

@Neil, np ;) . Almost forgot I had this one fixed. Nice to finally see it get into ubuntu :)

I'm just doing it for fun and to get my OS of choice better :)

Do you fix lots of things in Nautilus?

I'm more generally wondering how you specifically found the code that
controls that feature. I remember looking a while ago and giving up
because it was taking too long.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 15:54, Marcus Carlson <email address hidden> wrote:
> @Neil, np ;) . Almost forgot I had this one fixed. Nice to finally see
> it get into ubuntu :)
>
> I'm just doing it for fun and to get my OS of choice better :)
>
> --
> Ctrl+Shift Select doesn't select a new set of files
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148297
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Quite off topic but, i did fix a couple of things in nautilus but now I've got more interesting stuff to work on - I hope I'll get time to fix things in nautilus later again.

Do not give up - getting to know a codebase as large and complex as nautilus does take time. Begin with the easier things first (might not be something you care about, but certainly someone else) and when you feel comfortable browsing the code then you get the bigger fishes ;)