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[Jens <jens-launchpad.net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems nothing is being done on this bug (or is this a duplicate and
the party is somewhere else?).

So if this cannot be considered a bug due to some formal or bureaucratic
reason, please tell us whether this has been fixed and/or implemented in
future Ubuntu releases. Rubberband selection in list views is such an
important basic operating system feature that people shake their heads
when trying Ubuntu for file management, as in "what do you mean this
doesn't work? Why not?"

If there is a big show stopper (as in, major bug in some dependant
library that nobody has figured out in eight years), please also tell
us.

Thank you!

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/49348

Title:
  List view in Nautilus does not allow dragging a selection by mouse

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Invalid
Status in Nautilus:
  Confirmed
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When viewing files in Nautilus one can drag a rectangle around them to
  mark certain files. This is not possible in the list view of Nautilus
  even though there is usually a large white space in folders with few
  files that can make a user believe that dragging with the mouse there
  would produce the same rectangle as in icon view. I do it all the time
  by habit, and it is very annoying.

  Proposal:
  * Make it possible to drag a rectangle in list view. The problem is that starting to drag on a list item moves that item. Konqueror has solved this that you have to drag on the item name itself to move, else a rectangle marquee is started. Personally I find this quite efficient but may be annoying for less experienced users...

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