GNOME launchers execute twice on double-click from Nautilus?

[jholloway7 at gmail.com]

I just reproduced this on another system as well.  Both are running
Ubuntu 7.04 (Nautilus 2.18.1)

On 9/11/07, jholloway7 at gmail.com <jholloway7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Darryl,
>
> Good thought, but I verified that "Double click to activate items" is
> indeed selected.  I set it to "Single click..." and didn't notice any
> strange behavior with that option selected.   When I set it back to
> "Double click..." I was able to reproduce the strange behavior again.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
> On 9/11/07, Darryl Tidd <darryl.tidd at daaokc.com> wrote:
> > Hey Joe,
> > Check the preferences in the edit menu of nautilus.  on the behavior
> > tab  make sure "Double Click" is checked and not "Single Click".
> > Darryl
> >
> > Joe Holloway wrote:
> > > When I double-click to activate a launcher from within Nautilus, it
> > > frequently launches the application twice.  I've reduced the equation
> > > by creating a dummy launcher that just executes a "sleep 3".  Here's
> > > what I've found:
> > >
> > > If I double-click on a launcher sitting on my desktop (outside of
> > > Nautilus), it always behaves as expected and launches once.  The same
> > > if I highlight the launcher on my Desktop and press "Enter".
> > >
> > > However, if I navigate to the launcher sitting in /home/joe/Desktop
> > > (or anywhere else in the file system) using Nautilus and double-click,
> > > about 1/3 of the time it launches two terminal windows instead of one.
> > >  If I highlight the launcher and press "Enter", it always behaves as
> > > expected and launches once.
> > >
> > > I suspect this is a bug in Nautilus, but I couldn't find the right
> > > combination of keywords to score a hit.    Is there anyone in
> > > ubuntu-users land that can confirm this behavior?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Joe
> > >
> > >
> >
>