File Properties window doesn't allow interaction with folder

Bug #1664047 reported by Michael MacEachern
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

In Ubuntu 16.10, and the included version of Nautilus, when you right-click a file and go to Properties, you can only seemingly pull up one properties window PER folder, as the parent window you were just in is frozen in time, you can't click anything in it. Essentially making this a *major* usability issue, because now comparing two files in the same folder is rather impossible. I'd have to open up that one folder twice in two separate windows which is completely absurd.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.20.3-1ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-37.39-generic 4.8.16
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Feb 12 14:08:57 2017
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'thumbnail-limit' b'uint64 104857600'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'executable-text-activation' b"'launch'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'show-delete-permanently' b'true'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'206'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1101x680+233+140'"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-10 (125 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2017-02-12 (0 days ago)
usr_lib_nautilus: gnome-terminal 3.20.2-1ubuntu5

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Michael MacEachern (maceach-b) wrote :
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Michael MacEachern (maceach-b) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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