Nautilus offers a couple of different context menus.  When I right click on a file, I get a context menu offering Cut, Copy, Move To and so on.  When I right click on empty space in a Nautilus window, I get a directory context menu offering New Folder, Open in Terminal (if I've installed the nautilus-open-terminal extension) and so on.

Unfortunately when I'm in the list view and there are enough files to fill the current window, there's no way I can get to the directory context menu, since there's no empty space where I can click to get it.  This is a significant usability problem.  (This isn't an issue in icon view, where I can click in the empty space between two icons to get to the directory context menu.)

Some possible solutions to this might be

- When I right click on empty space in the list view (e.g. between a filename and its item count), do not automatically select the row and display the file context menu; instead, just display the directory context menu.

- Display the directory context menu when I right click an empty area in the toolbar above.

- Include all items from the directory context menu in the context menu which appears when I right click the current folder name in the toolbar.  (Currently that context menu does not include New Folder or Open in Terminal, for instance.)