Should have an Invert Selection option in nautilus

Bug #18636 reported by Uphaar Agrawalla
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Fix Released
Medium
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Hi,

This is a feature request in nautilus to have an option to invert the current
selection. That is, if we have 25 items in a folder, and we select any 10 random
items, on clicking Invert Selection, the other 15 items will be selected, and
the original 10 items will be de-selected.

Use Case:

When I'm backing up data from a certain directory, I select some files that
would fit on a CD. After burning these files, I'd like to be able to select the
remaining ones easily, so I can put them on another disc.
Right now I have to unselect the files, and then manually choose the ones I
haven't burned carefully. Or, insert the burnt disc and compare visually myself
to only choose the files which haven't been burnt. This is tedious and not very
confortable when you're doing the same operation repeatedly or when the no. of
files is large.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305295: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305295

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank for your bug. This is known upstream and a patch has been sent this week
on the nautilus list: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305295

Changed in nautilus:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Maftoul Samuel (samuel-maftoul) wrote :

this bug is confirmed upstream

Changed in nautilus:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Changed in nautilus:
assignee: seb128 → desktop-bugs
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Amos Brocco (mriya3) wrote :

Hi,
I've just added a patch in gnome bugzilla [1] for Nautilus 2.20.0

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=97795

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.23.2-0ubuntu1

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nautilus (1:2.23.2-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream versions:
    - Increase default thumbnailing size limit
    - Various fixes to keyboard handling in icon and list view (lp: #64289)
    - Use description from gio as window title
    - Fix double click behaviour in list view (lp: #120746)
    - Remember windows size when closed while maximized (lp: #137479)
    - Always use single click policy in the places sidebar
    - Fix selection handling after canceling delete operation
    - Improve autorun behaviour
    - Improve internal error handling
    - Fix adding emblems (lp: #224162)
    - Fix gconf preferences description
    - Improve list column page indentation
    - Prevent recursive move/copy into itself (lp: #232190)
    - Show mount dialog for already mounted shares too
    - Prevent autogenerated file names from overflowing the max filename length
    - Use ellipsis as per HIG
    - Fix leaks
    - Fix crashes (lp: #232522)
    - Build fixes
    - Translation updates
    - Support new gnome-session autostart semantics.
    - Unify session save/restore routines with "--restart" and "--load-session"
    - Allow to invert selection (lp: #18636)
    - Do not automount mount points inside hidden hierarchies
    - Add NautilusFileInfo APIs: can_write
    - Add initial Gtk-doc support.
    - Remove some dead code.
  * Sync with Debian
  * debian/control.in:
    - Build-Depends on liblaunchpad-integration-dev
    - don't build using beagle and tracker
    - don't require desktop-base and libesd
    - nautilus Recommends gnome-app-install
    - nautilus-data Replaces nautilus (<< 2.16) for dapper upgrades
    - nautilus Suggests gamin before fam
    - updated maintainer information
  * debian/mount-archive.desktop,
    debian/mount-archive.desktop.in,
    debian/nautilus.install:
    - new nautilus context menu item to allow mounting zip, iso, etc
  * debian/nautilus.1:
    - use correct command
  * debian/nautilus-data.gconf-schemas:
    - change the default desktop configuration.
  * debian/patches/01_lpi.patch:
    - launchpad changes.
  * debian/patches/02_autoconf.patch:
    - configure update.
  * debian/patches/03_menu_entry.patch:
    - change the menu item category.
  * debian/patches/05_places-sidebar_single-click.patch:
    - dropped, the new version has a similar change
  * debian/patches/08_display_mimetype_warning.patch:
    - new "preferences/display_mimetype_warning" gconf key which allow to use
      or not the mismatching mimetype warning dialog (Ubuntu: #19101)
  * debian/patches/10_rename_desktop.patch:
    - make renaming of a .desktop work with the language packs too
  * debian/patches/15_translations_list_update.patch:
    - list the new desktop as translatable
  * debian/patches/80_suppress_umount_in_ltsp.patch:
    - don't list unmount and eject actions on ltsp clients
  * debian/patches/81_gnome-app-install.patch:
    - Invoke gnome-app-install when no application known for file.
  * debian/rules:
    - updated shlibs version

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:13:32 +0200

Changed in nautilus:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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