Thanks for your suggestion. The changes you are requesting require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/forums/ might be a good start.
Having the context menu will just get in the way, you can dnd with middle click if you want to do that. The behaviour is not hard to get, dnd on your user directory move things, from other locations it will copy ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- Nautilus has poor usability w.r.t. the action choosen when dragging and dropping https://launchpad.net/bugs/82196 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs