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@Cody Russell
I'm not exactly sure how my comment is not as useful as the others just because I have an opposing opinion.
I'm not saying I'm not used to the renaming functionality, I'm saying it's unbelievably stupid UI design and at the very least I would like a Nautilus preference option to turn this off.
This is a prime example of one of the early windows UI bugs that have been forced down people's throats for so many years that they've gotten used to it.
If you want hard data on this, try to actually count the number of times per day on windows/mac when Explorer puts you into rename mode and this isn't what you wanted. It happens so often that you don't even notice anymore.
And distinguishing between icon and label is not a good solution because that makes the selection area too small to be useful (especially in list and compact view) and you always end up clicking on the label the second time anyway because this is big and easy to click and better symbolizes the file you're trying to manipulate.