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Idea #10078: Nautilus: Add "Create Folder/ Document" to rightclick-menu on folder (List).



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Written by yacwroy the 20 Jun 08 at 02:39. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Description
In Nautilus, when you right-click on the empty space in List View you get the options to "Create Folder" and "Create Document".

I suggest adding these options when right-clicking on a folder (perhaps only when using list-view, or perhaps an option to enable this feature). This would place the new file or folder inside the folder you right-clicked on.

Currently, to add a new folder into a sub-folder in list-view, you need to create a new folder, (which appears at the end of the list), rename it, then drag it to the target folder where you want it (or copy an empty folder to the target folder and rename it).

ALSO: Ctrl+Shift+N could add the new directory into the currently selected directory (perhaps an option).

REASON:
I program and have a heavily nested folder structure. I prefer List View over the Tree panel as the Tree panel doesn't have the options to:
#1: open files directly from the tree (Even with "Show Only Folders" off).
#2: change the "root" of the tree, which hides unimportant folders at the top of the tree eg "/bin", "/boot"...
#3: create documents. (without an unnecessary view panel).
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flammon wrote on the 20 Jun 08 at 23:54
F9 -> Tree View -> right click on folder and voila -> Create Folder.

yacwroy wrote on the 8 Jul 08 at 00:18
Thanks, but that doesn't really help.

First, the folder selected in List View is not displayed after pressing F9, its ancestors aren't even expanded, except for the one at the root of the List View.

Secondly, there is only Create Folder, no Create Document.

Thirdly, Tree View is inconvenient to me for the reasons listed above.

Lastly, I can't see a disadvantage here, only two more useful entries in the right-click menu that could even be enabled / disabled by an option if necessary.





tommynz1975 wrote on the 29 Aug 08 at 01:35
I think to make it custamisable..
so you can add what you want when you right click...

like terminal, gkuedit and such.

the most common things we go to the menu for could be their when we right click.

if open office is mostly used.. right click the mouse and their is openOffice as an item.


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