Re: File/Folder selection area in list mode.



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.

- John


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