GNOME launchers execute twice on double-click from Nautilus?

[Joe Holloway]

On 9/11/07, jholloway7 at gmail.com <jholloway7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

Quick follow up, I searched around on the gnome bug tracker and found
that someone has already reported this issue [1].  The submitter also
made the interesting observation that this seems to only happen when
in "View as List" mode.  I confirmed this by switching over to icon
mode and I could not reproduce.  I'll update the bug report with a
link to this thread.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448562