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Bug 667386 - Don't show folder context menu on rows in the list view
Don't show folder context menu on rows in the list view
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-01-05 22:13 UTC by sam_
Modified: 2012-08-31 20:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
list-view: remove context-menu on blank space (2.17 KB, patch)
2012-08-31 15:39 UTC, Cosimo Cecchi
committed Details | Review
Remove duplicate view items from the background menu (4.20 KB, patch)
2012-08-31 16:35 UTC, William Jon McCann
none Details | Review
Add paste and location properties to the gear menu (2.48 KB, patch)
2012-08-31 16:35 UTC, William Jon McCann
none Details | Review
Remove duplicate view items from the background menu (4.20 KB, patch)
2012-08-31 20:30 UTC, William Jon McCann
committed Details | Review
Add paste and location properties to the gear menu (4.36 KB, patch)
2012-08-31 20:30 UTC, William Jon McCann
committed Details | Review

Description sam_ 2012-01-05 22:13:57 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
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2012-08-20 20:52:08 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-08-21 00:15:47 UTC
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.
Comment 3 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-08-31 15:39:38 UTC
Created attachment 223076 [details] [review]
list-view: remove context-menu on blank space
Comment 4 William Jon McCann 2012-08-31 16:35:08 UTC
Created attachment 223085 [details] [review]
Remove duplicate view items from the background menu
Comment 5 William Jon McCann 2012-08-31 16:35:11 UTC
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.
Comment 6 William Jon McCann 2012-08-31 20:30:48 UTC
Created attachment 223105 [details] [review]
Remove duplicate view items from the background menu
Comment 7 William Jon McCann 2012-08-31 20:30:50 UTC
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.