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

"It's not a feature that you would advertise if you were selling Ubuntu"

This is not a feature, it is what is commonly called a "hygiene factor" in engineering.
Hygiene factors are things that nobody notices when they exist but everybody will complain about when they are missing or broken. 
Selecting objects via rubberband (almost) everywhere but *especially* in the file manager is so commonplace nowadays that this is an absolute must have.

This is THE single feature in file management that every single person I
introduced Ubuntu to complained about within ten minutes of usage. (In
contrast: absolutely nobody currently cares about touch features, where
a lot of effort seems to go.)

Please reconsider and prioritize.

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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:
  In Progress
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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