Re: [PATCH] Treat clicks in list view on other columns than sort column as background click

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gmail com>]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:06 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> From bug 94618 (summary) [1]:
> "No way to get contextmenu for current folder in list view".
> 
> I've decided against an empty row at the bottom because the solution
> proposed by me doesn't change the folder UI state (in contrast to
> scrolling), except for unselection of course.
> 
> Proposed patch attached, which makes Nautilus treat all clicks to
> columns which don't act as sort column as clicks on the folder
> background.

That sounds very confusing.  A lot of my directories are sorted
on file type.  Would I then be unable to click the file name to
select it?  The file name is the file; everything else is just
additional information.  Having clicks on the file name ignored
seems fundamentally broken to me.

--
Shaun