GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 751025
Can not paste to folder in list view mode
Last modified: 2018-06-06 12:06:40 UTC
0. default view is list view (not icon view) 1. open a folder (A) 2. cut file there 3. enter to another folder (B) with many files , making sure this folder is my target folder 4. can not paste here, because no blank space there to right click (filled with files until bottom) 5. to paste to folder B, we have to go up, right click on folder B, choose paste into folder I hope we can paste file on step 4 Thanks
+1 It would be great to fix this. I believe there used to be a "Paste" option in the menu which would paste into the current folder. That would solve this.
There is a bug report about this at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241684 With nemo it works by right clicking on the folder name in the "Main Toolbar".
There are a couple of places we could put the paste option: A. the action menu (the button to the left of the window close button) B. show it in the right-click menu, even if the user has right clicked a file/folder B is where I'd expect it to be, although from a UX point of view it might feel a bit uneasy selecting 'Paste' when a file/folder is selected. Would some people get the impression that it would replace the selected file? It's better than not having the option available though
Solution A. it's enough. Restore the paste function into action menu, where it was before being removed. IMHO, the better solution is: In full list view, when right click in blank area from the various column (not on file/folder name, or type, or data, ecc) and the file/folder is not select, show the same right click menu as when you click in a empty area in icon view, or when click into a bottom empty area in the list view with a few or none file.
Hey Neil. I think option A is not good enough, that's why we are exploring this in the action bar work. Option B is also too much to put in the context menu, and we discussed this on the past few times. Probably the best option of the options in this bug report is as Dario said detect the white space when right clicking. But that's not possible with the GtkTreeView. That's why I'm so eager to change this to GtkListView, but that's a really big work. So I think for now is better to wait on the other options we discussed on the past, say i.e., the action bar work.
I wasn't keen on either option tbh. After I made the comment above I realised there's yet another bug in bugzilla where this has been discussed. The action bar mock ups look like a really good way to address this
This is also problem when dragging from other app, for example uncompressing files from file-roller
*** Bug 774780 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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I also want to see this fixed. What about adding to the right-click menu an option that explicitly says "paste in this folder" instead of "paste"? That should avoid confusions...
This has been fixed in the development version, with a location menu in the pathbar, which has got a Paste action. The context menu is preserved but no longer required for this action. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/322#note_112903 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 689768 ***