The FolderView panel-applet remembers the index of the selected file/folder in the previous subfolder, when using keyboard navigation. E.g. when navigating to the third subfolder in a directory and pressing left cursor to go back, (i) there is no visible selection, (ii) and pressing cursor down selects the forth item in the directory (if it exists, otherwise only cursor up is possible). This is unexpected behavior, but can also totally break keyboard navigation in this scenario: Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create the following structure of empty directories: ~/foo/bar/dir1 ~/foo/bar/dir2 ~/foo/bar/dir3 2. Open the FolderView panel-applet for the Home Folder, and navigate to ~/foo/bar/ with the keyboard 3. Now select dir3, press Del to delete, select dir2, press Del 4. Press Left to go back to ~/foo Actual Results: Cannot select anything by pressing Up or Down. Expected Results: Be able to select something with keyboard.
*** Bug 368793 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
sometimes bar folder isn't selecting with up or down arrow keys - even if not deleting dirs folders in step 3
I can't reproduce this by following those steps, I tried a few times. But following the steps to reproduce bug 407889 I reliably get this issue.
Yep, looks like the same issue. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 407889 ***