double tap does not open folders or files in Nautilus

[Jani Monoses]

[Impact]

Nexus7 and some Dell touch screen devices do not work well with nautilus. This makes browsing files almost impossible in these devices. Further it's frustrating to the user because there is nothing that makes it immediately apparent that

[Test Case]

1. Install Ubuntu
2. Double tap to open a folder in nautilus

[Regression Potential]

Low, this fix just affects touch screen devices.

[Original Description]

On the Nexus7 device double-tapping does not work in Nautilus. Even single taps are not always registered.
In thunar navigating via double tap works fine.
The mouse settings panel's double tap timeout test works fine.

[Jeremy (elvis4526)]

Almost same resut here. Can't open folder with double tap or single tap in Nautilus. I did not tried other file manager yet.

[debb1046 (debb1046)]

Does it work in list view?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1002788

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Eric Zig (zuric)]

Same issue, work fine in the mouse settings but not work in nautilus

[vfatelinux (open007source)]

Same issue, I via menu "file->open" open file or folders,now

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

I think that double-tap might be broken in general, not just for nautilus.

[Jani Monoses (jani)]

As per the initial comment, and as of the latest image, thunar and mouse settings both handle double tap fine.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Sean Feole (sfeole)]

still affects 13.03.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

For me on the nexus 7, double-tap doesn't work even in mouse settings. When I try 'Test Your Settings' it only ever detects a single click for a double-tap, even if I set the double-click speed to the slowest possible (or the fastest possible).

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)]

Would someone that has a nexus7 please test Cosmo Cecchi's patch? I can't reproduce the bug on my x220t.

http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=236201

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've uploaded the upstream patch to raring for testing, setting quantal to wontfix, we don't intend to spend lot of times on SRUs for it at this point since we are getting close from raring and quantal is not a LTS

[James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)]

Thanks Sebastien! I'll fill out the SRU template too.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu6

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nautilus (1:3.6.3-0ubuntu6) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/16_unity_new_documents.patch: display the "new document"
    menu under unity, even if there is no template installed (lp: #1113648)
  * debian/patches/git_fix_touch_double_click.patch: upstream patch to try
    to fix double click not working on touch screens (lp: #1071922)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:49:59 +0100

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

uploaded to the precise SRU queue as well, but the current SRU will need to be verified before this one can move in

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hello Jani, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nautilus into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/1:3.4.2-0ubuntu8 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)]

I would appreciate it if someone with an effected machine could test raring to see if it is fixed. From there we can move to getting it in to Precise.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@James: I did verify the raring fix on a nexus7 and confirmed it works, somebody needs to test on precise though

[James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)]

Thanks, I've asked the original reporter from my end to test precise-proposed on the Dell machines.

[debb1046 (debb1046)]

Upgraded to raring today (nautilus 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu11) and problem is fixed on Samsung smart PC pro (amd64). Thanks.

[James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)]

Hi debb1046, is there any chance you would be able to test on precise-proposed?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

As a part of the Stable Release Updates quality process a search for Launchpad bug reports using the version of nautilus from precise-proposed was performed and bug 1160932 was found. Please investigate this bug report to ensure that a regression will not be created by this SRU. In the event that this is not a regression remove the "verification-failed" tag from this bug report and tag 1160932 "bot-stop-nagging". Thanks!

[Kent Baxley (kentb)]

I tested the proposed Nautilus package on the following:

Dell Inspiron 5521 with an Elan touchscreen.
12.04.2 64-bit

Before the nautilus fix, the double-tapping on folders didn't work.

After apply the nautilus update in proposed, I can now double-tap to drill down into folders and launch files, applications, etc.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

I can confirm that double-tap works on the touch screen of the Lenovo Thinpad Twist with Raring.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu8

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nautilus (1:3.4.2-0ubuntu8) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/git_fix_touch_double_click.patch: upstream patch to try
    to fix double click not working on touch screens (lp: #1071922)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:01:32 +0100