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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Since the GNOME 3.18 upgrade I keep opening files by error in the gedit file-selector. It took me a while to understand, what's going on why sometime single click acts like double click it seems to be due to this change
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk%2B/commit/?id=fb0a13b7

"file chooser: Allow activating without double-click
Interpret a unmodified primary click on the selection like a double
click. This makes it possible to activate a file or open a folder
without using double-click."


That has several issues:

- the behaviour seems inconsistant, it's not easy to understand what's
going on as an user (I first though my mouse buttons was having issues)

- if you double click on a selected directory to browse it, it opens it
with the first click then open an item directly in the directory, which
is not what you want (seems
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757950 was meant to address
that but it doesn't here)

- if you select an item, switch to another windows and click back on the
file-selector to focus it and manage to hit the selected item then it's
opened...


I'm unsure what the issue the change was trying to address, if that's about touch devices maybe the behaviour shouldn't impact pointer devices?

** Affects: gtk
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: New


** Tags: gtk318 rls-x-incoming

** Changed in: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Tags added: gtk318 rls-x-incoming

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #758649
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758649

** Also affects: gtk via
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758649
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1519778

Title:
  Single click opening of selected items in file-selector is confusing

Status in GTK+:
  Unknown
Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Since the GNOME 3.18 upgrade I keep opening files by error in the gedit file-selector. It took me a while to understand, what's going on why sometime single click acts like double click it seems to be due to this change
  https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk%2B/commit/?id=fb0a13b7

  "file chooser: Allow activating without double-click
  Interpret a unmodified primary click on the selection like a double
  click. This makes it possible to activate a file or open a folder
  without using double-click."

  
  That has several issues:

  - the behaviour seems inconsistant, it's not easy to understand what's
  going on as an user (I first though my mouse buttons was having
  issues)

  - if you double click on a selected directory to browse it, it opens
  it with the first click then open an item directly in the directory,
  which is not what you want (seems
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757950 was meant to address
  that but it doesn't here)

  - if you select an item, switch to another windows and click back on
  the file-selector to focus it and manage to hit the selected item then
  it's opened...

  
  I'm unsure what the issue the change was trying to address, if that's about touch devices maybe the behaviour shouldn't impact pointer devices?

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