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Bug 748057 - New document missing from menu
New document missing from menu
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Main Toolbar
3.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-04-17 14:48 UTC by James Cracknell
Modified: 2021-06-18 15:52 UTC
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Description James Cracknell 2015-04-17 14:48:32 UTC
The "New Document" option is missing from the header menu.

Prior to 3.16 you could access this functionality by right-clicking in some empty space in the directory listing, however using the new list view if the listing exceeds the window height, the "folder" context area is inaccessible.

This seems like a reasonable change, as the previous behavior where certain parts of the row did not target the associated child node was... odd; but the functionality should be accessible from the menu.
Comment 1 James Cracknell 2015-04-17 19:04:26 UTC
I have just noticed that "Paste" and "Open in Terminal" are also unavailable. Basically you should assume that under the current design, the right-click context menu for the current folder is unavailable in list view.
Comment 2 Carlos Soriano 2015-04-20 07:49:25 UTC
The behavior hasn't been changed for the last years, so before you could right click in an empty space, and now you can as well. But yeah I agree is not ideal.
Comment 3 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2015-08-02 00:02:08 UTC
That's what he said in the initial description, it only works if your folder has few-enough items that it has no scrolling and thus has empty space at the bottom (which pretty much never happens).

I do kinda remember that older versions of Nautilus (before the redesign somewhere between 3.6 and 3.10) had clickable empty space between rows (or columns?), but now there is no such space anymore.

I think we can pretty much all agree that adding those contextual actions to the global menubutton would be quite an improvement for anybody, whether power users or neophytes.
Comment 4 Kunaal Jain 2015-08-26 12:30:55 UTC
Jean you mean new folder and other such options be included in contextual menu like open , open with and all.
Comment 5 Federico Bruni 2015-11-27 16:41:34 UTC
IIUC this bug contains two different issues:

0) in list view there's no way to access the right click context menu on an empty space (this would deserve a separate bug).

1) new document missing from *global/header* menu.
That's what this bug is about.

I'm using nautilus 3.18.
If I add a text file to ~/Templates, I see a new item "New document>New file" in the right-click context menu only. However, some people might expect to see it also in the global menu, where there's "New folder" already. I wonder if it's an intended choice, a regression bug or what.
Comment 6 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2015-11-28 17:13:58 UTC
Kunal: no, only the actions that require "no selection" to work (which are currently impossible to do because there is no way to trigger the popup menu without having a selection, unless your folder is nearly empty)
Comment 7 António Fernandes 2017-08-14 22:35:23 UTC
(In reply to Federico Bruni from comment #5)
> 0) in list view there's no way to access the right click context menu on an
> empty space (this would deserve a separate bug).

Indeed, that is already the object of bug 689768.
 
> 1) new document missing from *global/header* menu.
> That's what this bug is about.

Agreed. If we already have a button for New Folder there, it would be consistent to have New Document also, if the user set up Templates. People not using Templates would keep the current menu as is.
Comment 8 André Klapper 2021-06-18 15:52:01 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
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