past file on nautilus not possible

[djnz]

Binary package hint: nautilus

1) There is a file "file1.txt" and you copy it.

2) Open a folder with a few files.
3) You can paste with right click on mouse.

2bis) Open a folder with many files.
3bis) You cannot paste with right click on mouse (paste is unavailable).

[Petter Flensburg (petterf)]

Hi there!

Just to be 100% on this, are you certain that writing rights in that folder?

if you have that, then it would be great if you could give me the following info:
What version of Ubuntu are you running? (6.06 Dapper, 6.10 Edgy...)
What version of nautilus are you running? (Check for version number in synaptic)

Thx

[djnz (anonimo1955)]

Hello!

>>Just to be 100% on this, are you certain that writing rights in that folder?
Yes, I have.

>>What version of Ubuntu are you running? (6.06 Dapper, 6.10 Edgy...)
Release 7.04 (feisty)

>>What version of nautilus are you running? (Check for version number in synaptic)
1:2.18.1-0ubuntu1 (feitsy)

Excuse my English.
The problem is that when I press the right mouse button in a white area I can paste.
When there are many files the white area does not exist, and pressing the right mouse button I select a file obligatorily and the paste command is not active.

Thx

[Petter Flensburg (petterf)]

have tried to just click CTRL + V ? Thats a shortcut for paste.

[djnz (anonimo1955)]

>> have tried to just click CTRL + V ? Thats a shortcut for paste.
Yes. It's OK. Many ways exist in order to make it!

But the problem is that in nautilus (with the screen full of files) you have the wrong contextual menu. When you click the right mouse button you select a file, even if this is not your intention!

Thanks.

[Petter Flensburg (petterf)]

So you can paste the file using CTRL+V ?

If you change how the files are shown you'll be able to right click and paste the file. Take a look at my attachment and try and change to that view instead, and you'll see (even though I'm showing you that view with konqueror, it works with nautilus too).

[djnz (anonimo1955)]

>> So you can paste the file using CTRL+V ?
Yes I can.

>>If you change how the files are shown you'll be able to right click and paste the file. Take a look at my attachment and try and change to that view instead, and you'll see (even though I'm showing you that view with konqueror, it works with nautilus too).
OK. But this is another way of operation! I think that this is a trick like CTRL+V!

From my point of view there is a bug because with the mouse I cannot de-select a selected file.

I cannot have the right contextual menu because of the modality of file selection in nautilus.
If you compare the way of operation of nautilus with that one of windows explorer you will notice that explorer only select a file when you click on its name while in nautilus a whole line (name, dimension, etc.) is sensitive to selection.

I think that for the resolution of this bug there are two way:
1) as a result of a vertical scroll, always insert a blank line (where will be therefore possible to de-select the eventually selected file and enable the right contextual menu);
1) to limit the sensitive area for file selection to the column of the file-name.

Thanks.

[Daniel Pirch (dpirch)]

I agree that this lack of "white area" in the list view is annoying. If there are enough files to fill the window, it it not possible to get the usual folder context menu. Of course, all its items (like Paste, Create folder, Properties (of the _folder_), Open in Terminal) can be found somewhere else in the menu, but the point is that they are not where they use to be.

Moreover, it is a problem when drag-and-dropping into a folder full of subfolders, because the dropped file will end up in one of the subfolders. This could keep users from using drag-and-drop at all even without subfolders, because they may expect some unintended action when dropping something on a file.

It would be more intuitive if just the first column or (better) only the icon and the filename were associated with a file for its context menus and drop target, and everything else as "white area" with the containing folder. This is also how the Windows XP Explorer works, BTW.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

If the bug is about the list mode having to space to open the context menu that's a known issue and the bug can be closed as duplicate

[Daniel Pirch (dpirch)]

Yes, it's about this upstream bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94618