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Opening Popupmenu in Context of Folder with List-View impossible?

Bug #126540 reported by Alexander Menk on 2007-07-17

This bug affects 6 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Nautilus	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #94618
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

Situation:

I've got installed the package which provides an "open-terminal here" functionality for folders.

If Symbol-View is choosen, I can right-click into the empty space between the symbols to open the context menu for that current folder. There it is also possible to create a new folder.

Problem:

I use the List-View most of the time. Using that, I cannot find any empty space to right-click on for opening the desired popup menu for the current folder. All I can get is the file-based popupmenu.

Solution:

Workaround: The menu per-folder is accessible via the File-Menu.

Better solutions: Make the Popupmenu for the current folder accessible in a better way. Perhaps you can merge it with the File-Menu. Or make it available when clicking on folders in the treeview.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 17 12:49:34 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: nautilus --sm-config-prefix /nautilus-Xp0VTb/ --sm-client-id 117f000101000117684120400000060630002 --screen 0 --load-session /home/self/.nautilus/saved-session-9CS2RT
ProcCwd: /home/self
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux self-laptop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/quantal/nautilus

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Alexander Menk (alex-menk) wrote on 2007-07-17:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (33.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (672 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2007-08-07:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.This bug is known upstream please feel free to posts your comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94618 ; thanks in advance.

Changed in nautilus:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-08-08

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-16

Changed in nautilus:
importance:	Unknown → Medium

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-12-17

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-01-31:

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1

---------------
nautilus (1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream version which fixes:
    - "Opening Popupmenu in Context of Folder with List-View impossible?"
      (lp: #126540)
    - "'Create folder in here' context menu option for nautilus" (lp: #61786)
    - the file count and the size count change in opposite direction.
      (lp: #503330)
    - the mounts in the place menu should have a properties entry.
      (lp: #846289)
    - add command line option to select file (lp: #575719)
    - Media in 'Places' side bar should have same context menu as in
      'Computer' (lp: #230098)
  * debian/nautilus-data.install:
    - updated, ui and icons have been moved into gresources
  * debian/patches/05_desktop_menu_export.patch:
     - updated to correctly include the gresources desktop definition

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * New upstream release.
  * debian/control.in:
    - Bump minimum GTK and glib
  * Refreshed patches
  * Dropped upstream patches:
    - 17_dont_allow_new_tab_on_desktop.patch
    - 18_fix_crash_in_get_current_uri.patch
    - 19_lazily_initialize_notification_service.patch
    - git_sideplace_sorting.patch
    - git_next_row.patch
    - git_dont_document_browser_option.patch
    - git_browser_compat.patch
    - git_bookmarks_reordering.patch
    - git_listview_context_menus.patch
    - git_use_gtk_grid.patch
-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:45:01 +0100

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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Aisano (info-ais-sanmarino) wrote on 2013-07-16:

I am now (3.8.0-26-generic, nautilus 3.6.3) experiencing the same problem: Only in icon view I can open a context menu with "new directory"; in the list view I get only the concerning file's menu.
The mentioned work-around does not work for me: The "File" menu in the menu bar does not contain a "new directory" (or "create directory") item either.
It's not a permission problem; the icon view gives me a "new directory", and in the shell I could create the directory without problems.

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David Tombs (dgtombs) wrote on 2013-07-20:

Hi Aisano, this issue was fixed for me and others with the above update. If you are experiencing it now, please open a new bug report as it might be a slightly different issue. Thanks.

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