Double-click (mis)behavior

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

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.