Touching on white space in Nautilus does a drag-like select

[Will Cooke]

Steps to reproduce:

Login in to a Wayland session
Open Nautilus
*TOUCH* on some white space beneath the files
Notice that you get a rubber-band select from the first item (top left) to where you touched.
Touch on a file/folder in the top right, and touch white space somewhere beneath the files.
Notice that the rubberband still starts at the top left.

I think that users would expect the same functionality as when using with a mouse, i.e. the selected files would be deselected.

I've attached a video to try and show this. Generally Nautilus with touch is a bit odd.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.24.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-22.24-generic 4.10.15
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.5-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Jun 13 11:53:20 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-07 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170606.1)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. I reproduced it on an up to date artful installation.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Reported upstream on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786909