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This bug was fixed in the package gtk+3.0 - 3.18.7-1ubuntu1

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gtk+3.0 (3.18.7-1ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version merged from Debian
  * debian/patches/ubuntu_fileselector_behaviour.patch:
    revert "single click to browser selected items" behaviour which was
    introduced in 3.18, it's confusing to users and was added without
    rational. The issue has been reported upstream but didn't get traction
    (lp: #1519778)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>  Wed, 03 Feb 2016 17:08:06
+0100

** Changed in: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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

Status in GTK+:
  Confirmed
Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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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