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gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng package

Selecting on a touchscreen with a finger does not work

Bug #2028869 reported by Jussi Pakkanen on 2023-07-27

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have a laptop with a touch screen that supports both finger and stylus operations.

Clicking on desktop icons works perfectly on both.

Drawing a selection box works when using the stylus but not when using a finger. Touch + drag is essentially a no-op.

I would expect both of these to work the same way.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng 46+really47.0.2-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-25.25-generic 6.2.13
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jul 27 18:12:17 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-10-28 (271 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" - Release amd64 (20221020)
PackageArchitecture: all
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-04-10 (108 days ago)

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Jussi Pakkanen (jpakkane) wrote on 2023-07-27:

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2023-07-28 (last edit on 2023-07-28):

desktop-icons-ng is actually a GTK app so I wonder; can you reproduce the same issue in a Nautilus window?

Caveat: desktop-icons-ng is GTK3 and Nautilus is GTK4.

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Jussi Pakkanen (jpakkane) wrote on 2023-07-28:

No, the selection box works both with a finger and the stulys.

It has a different bug, where if you drag a box with your finger after a second it will pop up the context menu even if you are still moving your finger. This is an upstream issue that also happens on Fedora.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2023-07-28:

Sounds like it might have the same root cause as:
https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/desktop-icons-ng/-/issues/114