Nine and a half years and counting, guys. Please implement the feature from 1998 that was missing 2006. The failure of this to work makes Ubuntu look amateurish every time someone messes with my desktop.
-- 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
