Warty Gnome

[Ari Torhamo]

to, 2004-12-30 kello 10:06 +1100, Russell Cook kirjoitti:
> Ari Torhamo wrote:
> > to, 2004-12-30 kello 08:20 +1100, Russell Cook kirjoitti:
> >   
> > > 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.
> > >     
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> >   
> 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.

I did some experimenting on settings and noticed that when I choose the
option "One click activates the target" (translated from Finnish), I'm
no longer able to deselect individual files from a selected group. But
this is only case with list view. In icon view deselecting works as
normal even with this setting. 

> > 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?
> >   
> This is the same for me.
> 
> -- 
> Kind Regards 
> Russ