expand/collapse triangle doesn't get the click after changing status, until you move the mouse cursor

[Teo]

Steps to reproduce:
- open a folder in Nautilus
- be sure it's a (or navigate to a) folder which contains folders which in turn contain something
- select the list view
- click on the triangle next to a folder so as to expand its subtree
- click again on the triangle (be sure you don't move the cursor before you click)

=> expected: the folder's subtree should now collapse
=> observed: it doesn't

You need to move the mouse cursor a little bit before you click again, then it _will_ work.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu3.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 12 19:36:13 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-07 (66 days ago)

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Can't reproduce this in nautilus 3.3.5-0ubuntu2 in Precise.

Could you please record a vide screencast of the issue?

[Mike Bell (slickvguy)]

I can confirm the same bug.

Ubuntu 11.10 (clean install). List view. Click on the + on the right hand side of the folder name to expand it. Then click on the - to collapse it. Doesn't work. Move mouse off of the icon. Move mouse back to the -. Click. It collapses.

Obviously, the user should be able to keep the mouse pointer on the icon and click repeatedly with the folder alternating between expanding/collapsing each time.

[Teo (teo1978)]

Funny, I don't have any + or - signs on the right side of the folder names. I have collapse/expand TRIANGLE icons on the LEFT side.

Except for that the bug I observe is exactly the same as you describe.

Maybe the difference is because of the theme? It would be pretty strange though, because you say you have a clean install, and though I have installed it a couple of years ago when it was 10.04 and then upgraded to 11.10, I've never ever changed the theme in my life.....

[Teo (teo1978)]

Vadim, I don't know how to record a screencast, but since at least Mike has confirmed this, I'll mark it as confirmed.

[Mike Bell (slickvguy)]

Forgive me, matteo. I meant on the left side of the folder icon (not the right).

I was playing with it a bit later, and in one situation (that I could not replicate), it worked as it is supposed to. (Perhaps it was working properly only if the folder was empty?)

To record a screencast from gnome-shell, do a ctrl-alt-shift-r (and again to stop recording). It'll place the movie file (.webm) in your home directory.

Or another way you can do it is to use Kazam.
Ubuntu 11.10 or later:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bigwhale/kazam-oneric
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kazam

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[X (s-u)]

but this isn't limited to nautilus, it happens in marlin too, does anyone know what part is controlling this so I can file a bug report to the correct place.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 930392, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

A bug on marlin should be filed separately - please use 'ubuntu-bug marlin' command