File-roller drag'n drop is unreliable
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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file-roller (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: file-roller
Drag'n drop of a file from file-roller in Gnome to a local folder is unreliable here. It fails 1 time out of 5 here approximately.
When it fails, it gives the following error message:
You don't have the right permissions to extract archives in the folder "file:/
Note that I'm actually trying to drop the file to this location (where the permissions are ok):
/home/chris/
I have no idea where the trailing "xds.txttion" comes from and of course it does not exist on my local filesystem. The error always refers to this folder name.
Just a hint, I think it has something to do with the time you wait until you release the mouse button to actually drop the file in the folder. I think the behavior is as follows:
1. Press mouse button on a file in file-roller, drag the mouse to the local folder, wait until a '+' appears on the left of the dragged file icon and then release the button -> It works (If you wait a sufficient amount of time, it never crashes)
2. Press mouse button on a file in file-roller, drag the mouse to the local folder, immediately release the mouse button before the '+' appears on the left of the file icon -> It does not do anything, the file is not extracted, no error (probably too fast).
3. Crash case: I think it crashes if you release the mouse button relatively fast, just before the '+' appears on the icon (or maybe at this moment).
I might be wrong but this is my best guess and I hope it can help identifying the issue since it is not easy to reproduce probably.
I'm using:
Version: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
Changed in file-roller (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Thanks for the report, is this still an issue with Lucid?