Re: File/Folder selection area in list mode.

[oleksandr korneta <atenrok gmail com>]

on 02/06/2009 09:56 AM John Keller wrote:
> oleksandr korneta wrote:
> > lucky me. I just subscribed for this list with intent to discuss the 
> > same annoying selection model and found that I'm not alone.
> >
> > on 01/22/2009 08:30 PM markbl wrote:
> > > Nandox7 wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to change the selection detection area when in list mode
> > > > from the all File/Folder row to only the text in the columns?
> > > > Basically what you see in the windows file browser, the reason is that for
> > > > example if you try and drag/drop or copy/paste something to a folder that
> > > > is open and that contains many folders you can't if you only have folders
> > > > listed, you need to scroll down to an area that has files and drop the
> > > > content to copy there. If not what you're copying ends up inside a folder.
> > and notice, that this will not work if your list of folders is longer 
> > than the height of the nautilus window.
> >
> > > I have just gone looking for a solution to this as well when I found this
> > > post. I've come back to note a solution here which I just discovered myself
> > > playing around. Switch your location bar to button view rather than text
> > > view and then you can drop a file/dir directly on the button.
> > I hate that button view mode to start with, and can't imagine why would 
> > anyone use it. The idea that I have to switch to another view mode just 
> > in order to drop a file into current folder is kinda strange. And taking 
> > into account that I have it in a text mode all the time, having to 
> > switch in a middle of the process of dragging files will definitely 
> > drive me nuts.
> >
> > Anyhow, this kind of behavior made me completely give up the hope to be 
> > able to use drag'n'drop while in nautilus. Now I completely switched to 
> > Ctrl+C/Ctrl+X/Ctrl+V although this method also works strangely sometimes.
> >
> > More irritating than that is the fact that all folder-related context 
> > menu items disappear (as "create a new folder" and folder related 
> > extensions like "open location in terminal") when you click on a file. 
> > However in "list view" mode you simply cannot avoid clicking on a file.
> >
> > Selecting the group of files by drawing a window with a mouse cursor 
> > doesn't work either (yeah, yeah I know Shift+click), because in order to 
> > initiate that window you have to click on the open space. And guess 
> > what, there is no such space unless your list of files is shorter than 
> > actual nautilus window.
> >
> > So what I'm trying to say here that in "list view" nautilus pretty much 
> > resembles MS windows file explorer, but the latter is actually usable in 
> > that mode, while nautilus is not. And all it takes is to change the 
> > selection detection area.
>
> You might want to check out this bug:
>    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94618
>
> It has a patch waiting for the maintainers' review that fixes the 
> columns for right clicks and lasso selection. Next step would be 
> changing the drop target to allow dropping objects into a Nautilus list 
> view full of folders.

gees... this thing is in the bugzilla from 2002! Hopefully it will make 
it into release for 2.28 (who knows if I still will be using nautilus 
till that time).

thanks John, for pointing me to this one.


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regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

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