I agree with David - if this is intentional behaviour, it's quite unintuitive. I'd suffered through it for a couple of weeks, just thinking that the context/file menu choice was random. I only realised that the difference in behaviour was due to clicking on a part of the file listing with text versus no text after finding this bug report.
Clicking on the empty space *below* the files has always seemed more intuitive to me. And if multiple items are selected, right-clicking anywhere on the highlighted region should bring up the file menu, not a random menu depending on where in the selected region you click. I do take Shinoda's point, though, that if the list fills the whole viewpoint and you want the old behaviour, there's nowhere to click. Do we actually need two seperate menus, though? I don't see anything in the context menu that can't be put into the right-click file menu, apart from "properties". But this can be obtained by right-clicking on the directory name, which makes sense, because they are directory properties. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/990965 Title: unexpected right click behavior in nautilus Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: then no file is selected, right click on any file in the list doesn't work. popup provide behaviour for current folder not for expected file ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.4.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Apr 29 11:27:44 2012 GsettingsChanges: org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '1163x602+326+218' org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-status-bar true InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/990965/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
