Hello, while using "Files", the explorer application (version 3.28.1-stable) in my Fedora 28 system, I have sometimes this kind of problem: - I normally use what should be "list view" with list of file names - if I have to paste a file/dir or group of copied files/dirs into a location where the page listed is full (no blank space inside it), it seems that I cannot paste: the right mouse click doesn't offer the paste option.
In these cases I temporarily switch to what should be "icon view" and in this case I always have some blank space because of how items are displayed. I select a blank space and then right-mouse --> paste Then I come back to list view...
Is this a sort of bug or what? Based on this link https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/files-copy.html.en I should have "paste" option in menu, but it doesn't happen, see screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1ZPYPJ5B8IRDA6T_LL5AfbCD2YFAy6_/view?usp=s...
NOTE: keyboard shortcut ctrl+c and ctrl+v works, though
Thanks in advance. Gianluca
Allegedly, on or about 1 August 2018, Gianluca Cecchi sent:
while using "Files", the explorer application (version 3.28.1-stable) in my Fedora 28 system, I have sometimes this kind of problem:
- I normally use what should be "list view" with list of file names
- if I have to paste a file/dir or group of copied files/dirs into a
location where the page listed is full (no blank space inside it), it seems that I cannot paste: the right mouse click doesn't offer the paste option.
I'm annoyed by the same thing, it's a bad design. The right-click menu is context sensitive, so will only offer options applicable to what's under the cursor, or already selected. In this case, it'll be a menu for working with one of the existing files or folders in that window.
Putting it simply, most of the so-called file managers on Linux are really not in the class of being a file "manager." They're just file browsers with a few features.
Unless you use another file browser/manager, you've got two choices:
1. Use keyboard shortcuts, and inconveniently swap between keyboard and mouse. 2. Laboriously go into the edit menu (at the top of the window, presuming you're not using a desktop manager that has removed the feature), and pick PASTE from the EDIT menu.
It'd be nice if you could simply add CUT, COPY and PASTE icons into the file browser's toolbar, to quickly do those *very* common functions.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:22 AM, Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org
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- Laboriously go into the edit menu (at the top of the window, presuming you're not using a desktop manager that has removed the feature), and pick PASTE from the EDIT menu.
It'd be nice if you could simply add CUT, COPY and PASTE icons into the file browser's toolbar, to quickly do those *very* common functions.
The problem is that I'm using stock F28 with default Gnome 3 and, as it can be seen from my screenshot, there is no "PASTE" option in the menu (what exposed clicking the 3 horizontal lines icon): I only have: - new folder and new tab buttons (+ "bookmark this location" button that is grayed out) - zoom in/out buttons - undo and redo buttons that are grayed out - Visible Columns... - "show hidden files" checkbox - Reload
So your hint and gnome documentation for which I provided the link seem not accurate, or Fedora 28 has done some customization to the menu of "Files" application
Gianluca
On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 09:06 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
The problem is that I'm using stock F28 with default Gnome 3 and, as it can be seen from my screenshot, there is no "PASTE" option in the menu (what exposed clicking the 3 horizontal lines icon): I only have:
- new folder and new tab buttons (+ "bookmark this location" button
that is grayed out)
- zoom in/out buttons
- undo and redo buttons that are grayed out
- Visible Columns...
- "show hidden files" checkbox
- Reload
It's like that by design and has been that way for a while now. It's obvious why, too: they believe people using that application are using the icon view exclusively and is the reason why the "paste" will always work in that view.
The current nautilus design for the list view is, in my opinion, broken. Why? If I can't paste in list view when the list is full, it's broken.
I guess no one has bothered opening a bug entry for this (I certainly haven't).
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 6:59 PM Ranbir m3freak@thesandhufamily.ca wrote:
On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 09:06 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
The problem is that I'm using stock F28 with default Gnome 3 and, as it can be seen from my screenshot, there is no "PASTE" option in the menu (what exposed clicking the 3 horizontal lines icon): I only have:
- new folder and new tab buttons (+ "bookmark this location" button
that is grayed out)
- zoom in/out buttons
- undo and redo buttons that are grayed out
- Visible Columns...
- "show hidden files" checkbox
- Reload
It's like that by design and has been that way for a while now. It's obvious why, too: they believe people using that application are using the icon view exclusively and is the reason why the "paste" will always work in that view.
The current nautilus design for the list view is, in my opinion, broken. Why? If I can't paste in list view when the list is full, it's broken.
I guess no one has bothered opening a bug entry for this (I certainly haven't).
-- Ranbir
I don't remember if I have opened a bug or not but right today I noticed that in my latest Fedora 30 the feature is present. Now when you copy/cut in a window and then go into another one you can select the three lines button and from the menu select the icon indicated by the arrow in the picture below to paste: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11EDD0I3x6R025T5vQAtTQjn9Fy6yqIZy/view?usp=s...
I thought it could be nice to notice that finally the implementation is there... Gianluca
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