Click+Shift+2nd click wrongly selects files on desktop

[Ruben Verweij]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Normally, when one would click on the topmost file on the desktop and then on another file while holding Shift, every file in between is selected. This is however only the case when the files are sorted alfabetically. So, when the files are in random order, they are selected according to their name and not their place. Also see the screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: d1356733fecbd9f61efca73482ee5328
CheckboxSystem: 3a099e6025b6966c7dc0b35e6bf85b5f
Date: Thu Oct 29 15:55:46 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Waldir Leoncio (wleoncio)]

I've managed to reproduce this by coping files from the examples folder into the desktop and rearranging them randomly. I'm attaching an animated gift showing the bug.

[Waldir Leoncio (wleoncio)]

Animated example of wrong behavior. Notice that to select all files I must first select the first file on alphabetical order (respecting the "folders before files" rule) and then shift-select the last one.

[Waldir Leoncio (wleoncio)]

Sorry for triple-posting. The file I've attached before had no extension and firefox thought it was a binary file. I've renamed the file and am updating it again.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij)]

Apparently it was already reported upstream.
Added the bugwatch for it.

[Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij)]

This seems not to be happening in gnome-shell, can anyone confirm? If it is fixed there, maybe the code could be reused?