GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 667386
Don't show folder context menu on rows in the list view
Last modified: 2012-08-31 20:47:35 UTC
Due to the fix of gnome-bugs #94618 it revealed a user has to click *exactly* on a file name in order to access the appropriate context menu. If a file name is very short, for example 'fo' or '1' a user needs to have good target skills. Please allow an independent context menu which leaves it up to user which action to select. First reported there. Thanks in advance for a review. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/912446
Bug 94618 indeed changed the design to use whitespace to bring up the folder-level context menu. I too think this is problematic. And I don't think it is required any more. We now use the "gear" menu in the toolbar to display folder-level contextual actions.
Indeed what bug 94618 meant to solve is way less relevant now that we have a gear menu, so we could probably revisit that choice. I also found myself various times clicking on a row detail with a small filename and wondering why it did not act on the row itself but on the blank space.
Created attachment 223076 [details] [review] list-view: remove context-menu on blank space
Created attachment 223085 [details] [review] Remove duplicate view items from the background menu
Created attachment 223086 [details] [review] Add paste and location properties to the gear menu So that we have everything there that we used to have in the now harder to get to "background" menu.
Created attachment 223105 [details] [review] Remove duplicate view items from the background menu
Created attachment 223106 [details] [review] Add paste and location properties to the gear menu So that we have everything there that we used to have in the now harder to get to "background" menu.