Comment 95 for bug 48671

"But this would be beyond the scope of papercuts, such a feature or any other mentioned here need to be requested upstream.

*Any discussions here is not going to fix or solve this problem* , it needs to be done upstream."

Upstream has already made it pretty clear that they're not interested in this (not your specific idea, but the general idea of a click-to-rename feature). I think they've had all this debate in the past, and they made a decision. A Walton commented above, and I talked to Alex Larsson in Gran Canaria and he was very clear about this.

Also, if Ubuntu really wants to do this it means we're committing the desktop team to maintain another patch against Nautilus probably for the rest of the life of Nautilus since such a patch will likely never be accepted upstream. Maybe the desktop team should be consulted about this.