It seems nothing is being done on this bug (or is this a duplicate and the party is somewhere else?).
So if this cannot be considered a bug due to some formal or bureaucratic reason, please tell us whether this has been fixed and/or implemented in future Ubuntu releases. Rubberband selection in list views is such an important basic operating system feature that people shake their heads when trying Ubuntu for file management, as in "what do you mean this doesn't work? Why not?" If there is a big show stopper (as in, major bug in some dependant library that nobody has figured out in eight years), please also tell us. Thank you! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/49348 Title: List view in Nautilus does not allow dragging a selection by mouse Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Invalid Status in Nautilus: Confirmed Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: When viewing files in Nautilus one can drag a rectangle around them to mark certain files. This is not possible in the list view of Nautilus even though there is usually a large white space in folders with few files that can make a user believe that dragging with the mouse there would produce the same rectangle as in icon view. I do it all the time by habit, and it is very annoying. Proposal: * Make it possible to drag a rectangle in list view. The problem is that starting to drag on a list item moves that item. Konqueror has solved this that you have to drag on the item name itself to move, else a rectangle marquee is started. Personally I find this quite efficient but may be annoying for less experienced users... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/49348/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
