Double-clicking a folder sometimes opens another, recently visited folder

Bug #1862544 reported by Linus
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Fix Released
Unknown
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

The following happens for me very frequently. Say I have the following folder structure:

A
|- B
|- C
|- some other files/folders...

I'm currently browsing the folder B. Then I go up one level, to A, by pressing backspace. I then immediately double-click on the icon for folder C to enter into it. Very frequently, this instead takes me back into folder B.

What appears to be happening is that when I go up from B to A, if I double-click the icon for C while the contents of A are being read from disk and the thumbnails are being refreshed, the program registers that I have double-clicked something, but after the thumbnail refresh has finished, the "selected folder" reverts back to B. Hence, the program thinks I double-clicked the icon for B instead.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.26.3-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-76.86-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-76-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Feb 9 21:42:19 2020
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'196'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'maximized' b'true'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-02-09 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_nautilus:

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Linus (linus2) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. That looks like an upstream issue, could you report it to them on
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues ?

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Linus (linus2) wrote :
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in nautilus:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Changed in nautilus:
status: Fix Released → New
Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Fix Released
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