I've googled my historical bug report back in 2.8 times, please see Alex's fix notification:
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 10:00 +0200, Kotrla Vitezslav wrote: > While renaming files via copy'n'paste I discovered rather strange > behavior of Nautilus. In icon view copy'n'paste of file name > works as supposed, in list view the same tries to copy not > file name string, but the file itself. > Can anyone else confirm or explain? 2004-10-11 Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> * src/file-manager/fm-list-view.c (fm_list_view_start_renaming_file): Set up clipboard when renaming. [http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus- list/2004-October/msg00146.html] ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- copy and paste of filename broken https://launchpad.net/bugs/50694 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs