GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 309844
Access a folder right-click menu from the path bar
Last modified: 2008-06-10 14:12:17 UTC
In spatial nautilus, it is possible to access the currently displayed folder's right-click menu from the location button (lower left). From there you can act on the opened menu (cut/copy, open properties, etc). It would be nice to be able to access the same menu directly from the path bar in a browser window. This would solve the "act on the opened folder" problem for browser windows.
Right, you already can do this for the location bar (right-click the "Location:" label), but not for the pathbar. Thanks for pointing this out.
Created attachment 48905 [details] [review] Proposed patch (against HEAD). I've also submitted this patch to the nautilus mailing list [1] for review. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-July/msg00098.html
I dunno. Its very strange that it only works for the current directory button. Anyway, I think its more important that dnd to the buttons work. I think that is more likely to be discovered by users.
Created attachment 49455 [details] [review] Proposed patch #2 against HEAD works for all pathbar buttons.
*** Bug 308589 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is still valid for 2.21, updating fields. Christian, was your patch rejected for some reason? This behaviour makes sense to me anyway, as the interface should be consistent between the location bar and the pathbar.
*** Bug 451760 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I committed a different patch to trunk: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/nautilus?view=revision&revision=14156 The issue with the original patch was that it did not ensure that the file info is actually available before displaying the context menu. Closing as FIXED.
Could the right-click menu show a "paste to this folder" item? That would make copying/ moving to a parent folder really handy.
David: Thanks, great idea! I just implemented it in trunk: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/nautilus?view=revision&revision=14162
Thanks to you for making Nautilus rock :)
May I draw your attention to two closely related requests? "support drag and drop onto button bar" http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479962 "middle-click drag a path bar button" http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532475 Should these two bugs be taken care of, the path bar in Nautilus would be incredibly useful.