Comment 2 for bug 1256110

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The detailed list mode is my favorite mode, given the excellent speed of thunar, this mode makes it very speedy to find and sort files.

For folders with small amout of files, i.e. the detailed list is shorter than the height of the window, you can always right click on the white area in the bottom of the window to bring up the directory context menu, to create new sub-folders or open shell for the current folder.

However, for folders containing a long detailed list (i.e. longer than the window), you can not bring up the directory context menu with right click: any right click will select the file at the cursor position and the context menu of the file will pop up.

I know you can always create sub-folders or open shell with menu, but just for the sake of GUI consistancy and convenient, I would like to see someway to allow users to continue using right-click to access the current directory menu under this situation. (maybe with a key-pressed, or any thing that the developers would think is consistant here)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.find a directory containing many many files
2.view it in detailed list mode
3.try to right click to get the context menu to create subfolders or open terminal

Actual Results:
you can not get the directory context menu for long detailed list view by right click

Expected Results:
right click on some part of the window allows you to open the context menu as you does in a directory with a shorter file list

an area or specific combination with right click can bring up the directory context menu