Nautilus: new file unfocuses while renaming

[Alexander van Hoorn]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When I create a file in a nautilus window ~/Desktop/foo using the right-click menu, the file unfocuses after about half a second, disabling the user to enter the filename in time. If you manage to enter a few characters, the file will be renamed to those characters. If you don't, it'll just be "new file".
Steps to reproduce:
- create a directory on the desktop (in gnome)
- open the dir with nautilus
- create a new file using the right-click menu
In other directories than direct subdirectories of my desktop I don't have the problem.

Using Dapper fully updated (2006/10/11) on a 266 MHz cpu and 256 MB of ram. Perhaps faster cpu's don't even give the half second of timeout (not confirmed).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. Are you downloading or copying something on your desktop at the same time? The refresh events probably steal the focus which is a known issue

[Alexander van Hoorn (alexandervanhoorn)]

It seems that you're right, but it is apache2 that is up/downloading. The bug ceased to show up after killing apache2 (which is run as root).
Maybe this version of the bug is caused by changing the owner of /var/www to myself, what I had done to ease the management for myself. I found out that creating files in /var/www created the same bug.
But there is no refreshing. It's also possible that my slow computer takes more time to show the icons (and to scan the files for detecting the MIME) than me to create a new file.
Anyway, if there's already such a bug, this is probably the same one.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

marking as duplicate of bug #56262