Re: Double-click (mis)behavior

[Fabio Gomes de Souza <bugtraq gs2 com br>]

Sorry. This message was being written as an analysis of GNOME general 
double-click behavior and would be sent to gnome-list, but I clicked on 
"Send" by accident. I will soon post the final report.


Fabio Gomes de Souza wrote:
> Hi, friends.
>
> After noticing some strangeness on how nautilus interpreted some of my 
> doubleclicks, I decided to test GNOME double-click behavior a bit more 
> deeply. The results follow:
>
> Below, when I mention "quickly as a doubleclick" means that your clicks 
> must be done inside the doubleclick timeout.
>
> NAUTILUS - ICON VIEW AND DESKTOP
>
> - Select an item. Now, quickly as a doubleclick, click on the blank 
> space and then click on the item you've selected. Despite the distance, 
> nautilus would interpret the click as a doubleclick on that item.
> - Select varius items. Hold Ctrl. Now, quickly as a doubleclick, try to 
> DEselect some entries. Some of the clicks would be interpreted as 
> doubleclicks and the items will not be DEselected. Note that the inverse 
> process (selecting quickly as a doubleclick) works as expected.
>
> It seems that Nautilus interprets doubleclicks regarding the currently 
> selected item instead of the distance between the two clicks. Funny.
>
> These tests were done in Nautilus 2.4.1 (debian unstable archives). In 
> older versions, the behavior was even worse.

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