Often times, I use nautilus to quickly navigate to a file whose location I need to cut and paste elsewhere.

To get the location of a file in the clip-board currently requires the following steps:

(1) Navigate to the folder the file is in.
(2) Right-Click on the file.
(3) Click "Rename..."
(4) Type Ctrl-A
(5) Type Ctrl-C
(6) Click the "Pencil" icon (left of the location bar to display the folder path in text).
(7) Put a forward-slash on the end of the currently displayed folder-location.
(8) Paste the file-name (copied in step 5) to the end of the currently displayed location
(9) Type Ctrl-A
(10) Type Ctrl-C

These 10 steps could be reduced to 2 steps if we'd simply add one more item to the context menu that is displayed when someone right-clicks on a file in nautilus: "Copy File Location"

Another item I suggest to add to this same context menu is: "Copy File Name". This features should also include files extension when the text is place in the clipboard.

Firefox has similar items in it's context menu, while right-clicking on web links: "Copy Link Location", and I've even added a firefox extension that allows my to "Copy Link Text".

When I right-click on something, I expect to see a list of all things I might want to do to what I'm right-clicking on.

Many users will appreciate these additions, and many have probably thought of them, but they didn't take the time to file a report because of the many steps required to do so. Each step in any process culls the impatient.

In summary, please add the following to nautilus' context-menus upon right-clicking files:
(1) "Copy File Location"
(2) "Copy Name"
(3) "Copy Name with extension"

Add the following to nautilus' context-menus upon right-clicking folders:
(1) "Copy Folder Location" (include forward-slash on the end)
(2) "Copy Folder Name"

These enhancement eliminated many steps, and therefore evolve usability.

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