GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 750276
There is no easy way to open a terminal in the list view
Last modified: 2016-11-05 09:40:31 UTC
I have Nautilus with the nautilus-open-terminal extension installed. In versions before 3.16, on the upper right corner of the window, the hamburger menu contained the same menu entries as a right click without selecting any file; so it was easy to open a terminal on any directory. Version 3.16 changed the hamburger icon (mostly for the better, you're doing a great job), but now there is no menu entry to open a terminal. This is a problem with list view, because if the directory contains many files, there is no way to right click without selecting any file, so there is no menu entry for opening a terminal on the current directory. I have a couple of proposals to fix this issue: 1. Make selecting files possible only on the first column of the list (like on Windows XP), so that a right click from the second column on behaves like no file is selected, or 2. Always take some free space at the bottom of the list in order to allow right clicking without selecting any file Of course, if you have a better solution to this problem just implement it, my proposals were only suggestions, nothing more.
This probably depends on/dupes Bug 748931 since the proper place for this extension's menu items is on the context menu for the current directory, but there is currently no way to invoke it when in list view when the directory contains many files.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 748931 ***