Contents of clipboard disappears when cutting (moving) files

[Christian Dannie Storgaard]

Binary package hint: nautilus

To reproduce:
Copy some text from anywhere to the clipboard.
Cut a file in Nautilus (right-click a file and select cut or select a file and click Ctrl+X)
Try pasting in any program other than Nautilus (preferably a program that accepts text input, e.g. a text editor)
The filename of the cut file is inserted.

What was expected:
The original copied text should have been inserted.

Reasoning:
Since cutting a file is removing it from its destination and putting it somewhere else, pasting in something else than a file manager does not yield the expected operation.

Suggested fix:
Nautilus should keep a copy of the current contents of the clipboard when doing a cut operation, check if the target of the paste is a file manager (or other program that accepts a file as input) and continue the operation as it functions now if it is, or the previous contents of the clipboard if it is not.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 17 19:56:17 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Yazen Ghannam (yghannam-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Christian,

Thank you for taking the time to submit a report. I can personally confirm this behavior. While going through the GNOME Bugzilla I found a bug from a few years ago requesting this behavior. It wasn't clear whether it was implemented on purpose or by mistake. Nevertheless, I went ahead and forwarded this report upstream. Thank you again.

old report requesting behavior: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48026
new report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607410

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for sending this upstream.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

from upstream
"""
Yazen, it isn't _always_ nautilus that gets the target for a paste of a file.
You could for instance paste in a text entry to get the path to the file and
other applications can do other stuff, because of this we have to use the
clipboard. Marking this as NOTABUG.
"""

[Christian Dannie Storgaard (cybolic)]

That makes sense for Copy, but not for Cut, where it is impossible to move the file into pretty much anything other than a file manager.
Cut means "remove from here, place other place" and the current behaviour goes against that.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

could you comment on the real bug here https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607410 and get it re-opened so that there is a reason for this bug to stay open

[Christian Dannie Storgaard (cybolic)]

I thought Ubuntu was still doing custom patches against upstream... oh well, will comment on upstream.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Marking Invalid for the same reason as given in the upstream bug. Ubuntu does do custom patches against upstream, but not for things like this (because they need to be maintained and something like this is not important enough to be worth the effort). If you can convince the upstream maintainers that it should work that way then change the Status here.

Thanks,

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