Nautilus should deselect selection when focus is lost

[J]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When a Nautilus window lose focus, any selection should be deselected or marked in a different way.

When using drag & drop, you sometimes don't know which folder will be the target because some folder may already be selected.

When you press the delete key you could delete content from the wrong location because you didn't notice your 'current' nautilus window didn't have focus. E.g. two nautilus windows where both windows has a selection.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, unselecting on focus switch would not be a good idea since there is a many case where you are working on a selection and might switch to something else (getting an instant messager message for example), the color are different for things having focus or not

[J (dump)]

I didn't mean for it to be completely deselected. It would be enough if the appearance of the selection changed when focus was lost. When the window regain the focus the selection should change back to normal. As it is, the colours are identical for a selection inside a window with focus as for a selection inside a window without focus.

Even selecting text in this box using Firefox will change appearance when focus is lost.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the request should be opened to the software writters on bugzilla.gnome.org

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is fixed with nautilus 3.4 in quantal