I agree that this lack of "white area" in the list view is annoying. If
there are enough files to fill the window, it it not possible to get the
usual folder context menu. Of course, all its items (like Paste, Create
folder, Properties (of the _folder_), Open in Terminal) can be found
somewhere else in the menu, but the point is that they are not where
they use to be.

Moreover, it is a problem when drag-and-dropping into a folder full of
subfolders, because the dropped file will end up in one of the
subfolders. This could keep users from using drag-and-drop at all even
without subfolders, because they may expect some unintended action when
dropping something on a file.

It would be more intuitive if just the first column or (better) only the
icon and the filename were associated with a file for its context menus
and drop target, and everything else as "white area" with the containing
folder. This is also how the Windows XP Explorer works, BTW.

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past file on nautilus not possible
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