Warty Gnome

[Russell Cook]

Ari Torhamo wrote:

>to, 2004-12-30 kello 08:20 +1100, Russell Cook kirjoitti:
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>>Hi all,
>>I used to be a KDE user and changed to Gnome with Ubuntu. I've now 
>>gotten used to it and like gnome. However there's a couple of things I 
>>don't think work correctly with the version supplied with Warty.
>>
>>Firstly, when you select single click in file management it works for 
>>nautilus and the desktop but not for applications that use the "common 
>>dialog box" for open files.
>>
>>Secondly, in list view mode (as opposed to icon view mode) if the window 
>>is full of files/dirs then control mouse button will select files but 
>>there is no individual file de-select function. I have to go up 
>>dir/click on dir to get a rid of selections if I pick a wrong file. This 
>>problem does not occur if there is whitespace in the window (i.e. it is 
>>not full of files/dirs) or in the icon view mode where control select 
>>and control deselect work as expected.
>>    
>>
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>I don't seem to have at least the second problem you described. I opend
>a directory with a lot of files (more than fits into the Nautilus
>window) and changed to the list view. I seemd to be able to choose any
>amount of files and then deselect one or several of them by at the same
>time keeping down the control key and clicking on the file/files I want
>to deselect. This is described in the Gnome Help, which you find in the
>upper panel. When you open it, choose Desktop - User Guide - Section
>7.9.2: To Select Files and Folders.
>
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Hi Ari, thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately, I've confirmed this again this morning. I'm using 
Nautilus  2.8.1, the nuvola theme and am running in browser window mode 
with single click.

>There is something missing though I think. When I have selected one
>group of contiguos files by clicking on the first and last file while
>keeping the sift-key down, I don't seem to be able to select an other
>group in any other way than clicking on the files in it one by one. I
>think it would be an important feature to be able to go down a long list
>of files and select them in as many groups as you like just by clicking
>the first and the last file in every group. As far as I can remember you
>can do this in Windows. Perhaps this is already reported as a feature
>request - does anyone know?
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This is the same for me.

-- 
Kind Regards 
Russ

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