Open File dialog requires double-click to open

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff]

Open File dialog requires double-click to open a file or folder; that's inconsistent with Marlin's single click. The settings at /org/gtk/Settings/file-chooser in dconf don't have such option, so looks like we'll have to patch it.

[Mario Guerriero (mefrio-g)]

we can make our own Open dialog and put it in granite or, to have more consistence, we can ship a custom version of gtk with the one-clicke file chooser dialog and also with other gtk patches like our About dialog.

[ikem (ikem-krueger)]

This bug report holds a patch:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121113#attachment_table

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Yes, but it's ancient and it's tagged "needs work".

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Okay so is someone going to patch GTK?

Personally, I think we can let this one slide. We need to make a new Open File dialog anyways, which will probably live in Granite and is way too much work to land before Luna.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Is this technical debt? Should it be triaged and also affecting Granite?

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Patching GTK to solve bugs has been brought up 2 times that I can somewhat recall. Both times it was deemed to dangerous.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

This is actually a UI inconsistency and unimplemented feature, not technical debt. Removing the tag.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

bug #11544 is the Ubuntu bug about this issue

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Untargeting for beta1 since it doesn't sound like we're going to solve this in any realistic amount of time.

[Cedrik (cedup)]

I hope one will still be able to decide of one want to single or double click after patching. Prefer the dumb old doubleclicking.