From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: Nautilus is really dumb about detecting double clicks: Click on one file, and then another too soon, it thinks you've double clicked the second file. Combined with the default action for mp3's and ogg's (xmms), this destroys the user's playlist. The default action should be changed to "xmms -e" to be nicer to users. This is normally what they want when they double click on files. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Double click a music file while xmms has a playlist loaded. The playlist will be reduced to the file you double-clicked. Additional info:
I'm not sure I understand GNOME's mime system correctly. This bug might be more appropriate against XMMS, in which case /usr/share/applications/redhat-audio-player.desktop should be modified to use: Exec=xmms -e %F rather than: Exec=xmms %F
The .desktop file mime info would be used for KDE, while gnome is in /usr/share/mime-info.
This is actually a few bugs in one. The first is that nautilus does indeed count two separate clicks on two different items as a double click on the second item. I think that that's the first issue to address. The xmms problem is annoying too, but lets do one thing at a time. In the future, it would be better to file separate bug reports for different problems and use the "Dependencies" tag in Bugzilla to link them together.
The nautilus double click issue is in Gnome bugzilla at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72960
This has been labeled as RESOLVED FIXED upstream. Confirming that it is fixed in Nautilus Rawhide (nautilus-2.3.8-1). CLOSED RAWHIDE
Hi, I'm going through bugs assigned to me and attempting to clean some of the older, fixed ones up. This bug hasn't changed in over a year old now. Are you still seeing the problem? (This a batch message is being sent to all my bugs that haven't changed in a year)
The problem is still present. I think that Brent focused on Nautilus' broken double-click behavior described in this bug report, but I only included that information to illustrate one way that the xmms bug could be very irritating. Double-clicking on a music file, or right-clicking and opening with xmms will still wipe out the playlist.
Hi Gordon, I'm going to reassign this bug to the XMMS component so that the problem has the opportunity of getting looked at. This behavior can be changed by editing the .desktop file that ships with XMMS.
xmms is part of extras now
Gordon : I've just checked xmms 1.2.10-15 which I have on my system, and the Exec line does already have -e %F, and opening a file from nautilus appends it to the playlist already. Can you please tell me what version you are using now? It seems to me that this has been fixed upstream in the bundled .desktop file already.
Closing this bug CURRENTRELEASE, since as I wrote above, the current desktop file does have the -e switch. Note also that the desktop file is actually the "redhat-audio-player.desktop" file from the "redhat-menus" package, so : - This was in fact probably a bug in "redhat-menus" previously (can't find any info as to when exactly it might have been fixed). - Things will break when/if redhat-menus decides to drop that entry, since it is now pointing to an application which is no longer in Core but in Extras.