Nemo - in list view, after pasting files, the up and down arrow keys to highlight a single file do not behave in the same way that they do in compact view (as well as icon view but for left and right)

[NintendoManiac64]

(this was primarily tested on live Cinnamon as well as a fully-updated local installation of Cinnamon as of 2022-07-15; it was also extremely briefly tested on a local installation of Xfce but it was late and I was getting tired)

Describe the bug
Simply put, after pasting files into a Nemo window set to "List View" and then you press the up or the down arrow key, the file that it then highlights (if it even highlights a file at all, e.g. if the file is at the top and you press 'up') ends up being a different file than if you performed the exact same process while in "Compact View" or in "Icon View" (though, for "Icon View", you would instead use the left or right arrow keys in-place of up or down)

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. boot a copy of Mint 21 Cinnamon (whether a live session of a local installation); I believe a local installation of Xfce will also work
2. on your desktop, create 10 new blank files named:

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9

3. open Nemo navigate to /home/Documents and make sure it is set to "Icon View"
4. copy and paste the files 4 and 5 from your desktop into 'Documents'
5. now highlight the files 6, 7, 8, and 9 on your desktop and do a right-click -> Copy
6. inside of 'Documents', right-click in a blank area and select "Paste"
7. press the left arrow key on your keyboard - notice how it should now be highlighting 8
8. in 'Documents', delete the files 6, 7, 8, and 9
9. switch Nemo to "Compact View"
10. inside of 'Documents', right-click in a blank area and select "Paste"
11. press the up arrow key on your keyboard - notice how it should now be highlighting 8
12. in 'Documents', delete the files 6, 7, 8, and 9
13. switch Nemo to "List View"
14. inside of 'Documents', right-click in a blank area and select "Paste"
15. press the up arrow key on your keyboard - notice how it is now highlighting... 5 instead?
16. in 'Documents', delete the files 6, 7, 8, and 9
17. switch Nemo to "Icon View"
18. inside of 'Documents', right-click in a blank area and select "Paste"
19. press the right arrow key on your keyboard - notice how it should now be highlighting 9
20. in 'Documents', delete the files 6, 7, 8, and 9
21. switch Nemo to "Compact View"
22. inside of 'Documents', right-click in a blank area and select "Paste"
23. press the down arrow key on your keyboard - notice how it should now be highlighting 9
24. in 'Documents', delete the files 6, 7, 8, and 9
25. switch Nemo to "List View"
26. inside of 'Documents', right-click in a blank area and select "Paste"
27. press the down arrow key on your keyboard - notice how it is now highlighting... 7 instead?
28. switch Nemo to "Icon View"
29. now highlight the files 0, 1, 2, and 3 on your desktop and do a right-click -> Copy
30. inside of 'Documents', right-click in a blank area and select "Paste"
31. press the left arrow key on your keyboard - notice how it should now be highlighting 2
32. in 'Documents', delete the files 0, 1, 2, and 3
33. switch Nemo to "Compact View"
34. inside of 'Documents', right-click in a blank area and select "Paste"
35. press the up arrow key on your keyboard - notice how it should now be highlighting 2
36. in 'Documents', delete the files 0, 1, 2, and 3
37. switch Nemo to "List View"
38. inside of 'Documents', right-click in a blank area and select "Paste"
39. press the up arrow key on your keyboard... and nothing happens? It will instead continue highlighting the files 0, 1, 2, and 3
40. in 'Documents', delete the files 0, 1, 2, and 3
41. switch Nemo to "Icon View"
42. inside of 'Documents', right-click in a blank area and select "Paste"
43. press the right arrow key on your keyboard - notice how it should now be highlighting 4
44. in 'Documents', delete the files 0, 1, 2, and 3
45. switch Nemo to "Compact View"
46. inside of 'Documents', right-click in a blank area and select "Paste"
47. press the right arrow key on your keyboard - notice how it should now be highlighting 4
48. in 'Documents', delete the files 0, 1, 2, and 3
49. switch Nemo to "List View"
50. inside of 'Documents', right-click in a blank area and select "Paste"
51. press the down arrow key on your keyboard - notice how it should now be highlighting... 1 instead?

Expected behavior
List View should behave the same as Compact View, and/or the same as Icon View when taking into account that Icon View uses the left and right arrow keys instead of the up and down arrow keys

Additional context
I had to provide this very lengthy step-by-step process in order to demonstrate, other than the fact that Icon View uses the left and right arrow keys instead of the up and down arrow keys, that Icon View and Compact View behave the same, implying that it is that behavior that is the correct behavior, especially since List View uses the same keys as Compact View yet List View behaves completely different.

[clefebvre]

Moving the issue towards nemo.

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[NintendoManiac64]

I can confirm this still exactly occurs as-is in Nemo v6.6.3 (which is also the version that comes bundled with Mint 22.3 Cinnamon).

Considering how long and involved it was, perhaps I should make a video demonstration as I tend to do nowadays for my bug reports?

Now being 4 years wiser in terms of Linux wisdom, being aware of various GTK bugs involving list view and keyboard navigation, my first instinct was that this was in fact a GTK bug, yet it does not occur in openSUSE Tumbleweed Xfce's Thunar... except step 39 did occur. I'm wondering if step 39 is basically the same bug that causes pressing the home key to fail to highlight the top-listed file in Thunar's list view

Also perhaps of interest is that the way Thunar behaved for all three views (icon, compact, list) was the same as the behavior for Nemo's "list" view, which almost makes one wonder - is this something like default GTK behavior ("list" view) clashing with custom-implemented Nemo-specific behavior ("icon" view and "compact" view)?