dragging file with middle mouse button doesn't show "Copy/Move/Link" context menu

[BronsonMathews]

middle mouse a file, drag and drop it used to bring out a copy, move, etc dialog. This is now missing in 16.10.
Can we please have this back, and an option to make the shortcut using rightclick + drag would be an improvement also.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.20.3-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-26.28-generic 4.8.0
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Oct 22 19:14:18 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-14 (8 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_nautilus: gnome-terminal 3.20.2-1ubuntu5

[Julien (jlab)]

Hello,
Same problem for me after update to 16.10.
Menu still available with alt+left click drag. But getting the menu without using the keyboard is very useful and not more possible.
I hope this will be corrected.

I'm using Ubuntu Gnome Yakkety Yak 64 bits.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that has been reported upstream on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772797

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is a gtk one, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/1512

[OzzyFrank (ubuntu-ozzyfrank)]

Upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04 with Nautilus/"Files" 3.36.3-stable and there is no middle-click drag context menu. I see this has been an issue for a while now, so I'm hoping this isn't *yet another* useful feature Nautilus/Gnome developers have taken out for reasons most of us can't fathom, but people are still looking at this as a bug, so I'm just confirming it is still an issue in 20.04.1 LTS.