Comment 1 for bug 50694

I've googled my historical bug report back in 2.8 times, please see Alex's fix notification:

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 10:00 +0200, Kotrla Vitezslav wrote:
> While renaming files via copy'n'paste I discovered rather strange
> behavior of Nautilus. In icon view copy'n'paste of file name
> works as supposed, in list view the same tries to copy not
> file name string, but the file itself.
> Can anyone else confirm or explain?

2004-10-11 Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>

 * src/file-manager/fm-list-view.c (fm_list_view_start_renaming_file):
 Set up clipboard when renaming.

[http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2004-October/msg00146.html]