Renaming bookmarks in Nautilus sidebar stops after pressing certain key-combinations

[sabby7890]

Users are unable to rename bookmarks in Nautilus using names with certain characters (such as diacritic characters or upper case letters).

Steps to reproduce:

- Make a bookmark (CTRL+D) of current location
- Right click on the bookmark and click "Rename"
- Try to type in the name using the polish letter "ł" (ALT+L) or a R (SHIFT+R). (Editing stops right after pressing right ALT in the former case, whereas you need to press both the keys in the latter.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-33.58-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-33-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Aug 12 22:35:24 2014
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-18 (25 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Saheel Godhane (saheel-godhane)]

For me, any character typed in upper case stops the editing, and instead, brings the focus back to the main window and starts a search-as-you-type search (with the upper case character as the first letter in the search text). I use Dvorak keybord layout.

The Right-Alt key does not do anything for me. Perhaps it's specific to the Polish keyboard layout you are using? But certainly, the bug is triggered by more than just the diacritic characters.

[Saheel Godhane (saheel-godhane)]

BTW, renaming the bookmark fines fine via Bookmarks->Bookmarks... and then changing the "Name" field of the specific bookmark.

@sabby7890: Did you try the above method of renaming the bookmark?

[b3z13r (b3z13r)]

I frequently run into this problem whenever I want to rename a bookmark into "name@server". As soon as I type the "@" symbol on a German keyboard, that is pressing "AltGr + Q", the focus gets lost and the renaming stops.

The two workarounds are:
1.) copy the @-symbol from somewhere else by Ctrl+C and then paste it into the new bookmark name by Ctrl+V
2.) use the bookmark manager from the top menu for any renaming