wishlist: To make it easier to view and copy the actual full path to a file or folder

Bug #2007749 reported by Nav
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Bug Description

Wishlist point 1:
As shown in the attached image, on right-clicking a file, the full path isn't shown. Sure, double-clicking it, copying it and pasting it somewhere will show the full path. But it'd be a lot more helpful if there were two options provided.
1. To either just show the full path, perhaps within a scrollable window, or to show a button that makes the text expand and display the full path.
2. To have a small copy icon which allows copying the path with a single click, instead of having to double click to select the path, then right click or press Ctrl+C to copy the path.
3. When viewing the properties of a file that's a symlink, the path to the actual file isn't shown. It'd help to show that path too.

Wishlist point 2:
From this blog post (https://nrecursions.blogspot.com/2023/02/real-path-to-linked-files.html).
In Nautilus and in the Terminal, it'd help to show the full path to files. In Terminal, when we type `pwd`, it'd help to show the path to the symlink file and in the next line, output the full path to the actual file too, instead of having to separately type `realpath fileOrFolderName`.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.36.3-0ubuntu1.20.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-60.66~20.04.1-generic 5.15.78
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-60-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.25
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Feb 18 20:01:32 2023
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'205'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'initial-size' b'(859, 826)'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'click-policy' b"'single'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'where', 'date_modified', 'date_modified_with_time', 'date_accessed', 'recency', 'starred', 'detailed_type']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-01-16 (32 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20220223)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_nautilus:

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