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nautilus package

copy and paste of filename broken

Bug #50694 reported by Vítězslav Kotrla
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

To reproduce:

Let's have two files, "foo" and "bar". I want rename "bar" to "foobar". I do it this way:

1. select file "foo", press F2 (rename mode, but I do this to get filename text selected),
2. press CTRL+C,
3. select file "bar", press F2 to get to renaming mode, click in front of "b" for we want to paste there,
4. press CTRL+V.

Instead of text "foo" being pasted before "bar" text the whole file "foo" is being duplicated in current folder (new file "foo (copy 1)" appears).

It looks like the file handle is written to clipboard instead of filename string. Please note this is a regression, I reported this bug around 2.8 in nautilus-users list and Alex Larsson fixed it in upstream immediately. That time only browser mode was affected but now this bug can be reproduced both in browser and spatial mode.

Please note current Debian/Sid nautilus (2.14.1-4) doesn't exhibit this strange behavior.

$ dpkg -l | grep nautilus
ii nautilus 2.14.1-0ubuntu5 file manager and graphical

Revision history for this message
Vítězslav Kotrla (vitko) wrote :

I've googled my historical bug report back in 2.8 times, please see Alex's fix notification:

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 10:00 +0200, Kotrla Vitezslav wrote:
> While renaming files via copy'n'paste I discovered rather strange
> behavior of Nautilus. In icon view copy'n'paste of file name
> works as supposed, in list view the same tries to copy not
> file name string, but the file itself.
> Can anyone else confirm or explain?

2004-10-11 Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>

 * src/file-manager/fm-list-view.c (fm_list_view_start_renaming_file):
 Set up clipboard when renaming.

[http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2004-October/msg00146.html]

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

Thanks for your bug. That works fine on my edgy desktop, is somebody else having that issue?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Untriaged → Low
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Michael Maier (michaelmaierde) wrote :

Yes, I experience exactly the same problem using "Ubuntu 7.04" including all patches/updates and "Nautilus 2.18.1" on a HP Pavillion ze4300 Notebook.

Rrgs,
Michael

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could you try if that' still an issue using hardy?

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

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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