<story><title>Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination</title><url>https://www.datagubbe.se/gnomefiles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiehong</author><text>This reminds me of not being able to right click in Files in list view for creating a new document or pasting something, because it only accepts a right click in an empty area. Yet, in list view, as soon as you have a few files and the window is full, you’re given no empty area to click in.&lt;p&gt;I saw some people have the same issue [0] in the past, and it’s not really been fixed either [1].&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ubuntuforums.org&amp;#x2F;showthread.php?t=1150025&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ubuntuforums.org&amp;#x2F;showthread.php?t=1150025&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;GNOME&amp;#x2F;nautilus&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;3445&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;GNOME&amp;#x2F;nautilus&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;3445&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gawa</author><text>I always had the same issue, even with the file explorer that I&amp;#x27;m using currently (Thunar, XFCE&amp;#x27;s file browser). I never really looked for a solution, I kept changing the view (go from list view to to icons view) in order to find some empty space to right-click on.&lt;p&gt;Your comment and seeing that there are bug reports about it prompted me to think more than 5 seconds about this usability annoyance. I found a cool shortcut on Thunar: holding the control key + right click anywhere (including on a file) will bring up the right-click menu, from where I can create a new folder, paste, open in the terminal...&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s XFCE&amp;#x27;s Thunar solution to this problem. It was just not easily discoverable, but it&amp;#x27;s a good enough solution according to me, as I don&amp;#x27;t mind using the keyboard. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s the same on Gnome&amp;#x27;s File or Nautilus or other file explorers softwares, I don&amp;#x27;t know.&lt;p&gt;Edit: looking at it more closely, in Thunar the ctrl+right-click will show the &amp;quot;create new folder&amp;quot; option only if no file is selected. Otherwise it shows the contextual menu of the selection (hence the create new folder would not appear). So basically we have to unselect the files ... by clicking on an empty area (so back to square one) ... or we have to know about another keyboard shortcut (the &amp;quot;Escape&amp;quot; key) to clear the current selection before doing the ctrl+righ-click. Not ideal either.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination</title><url>https://www.datagubbe.se/gnomefiles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jiehong</author><text>This reminds me of not being able to right click in Files in list view for creating a new document or pasting something, because it only accepts a right click in an empty area. Yet, in list view, as soon as you have a few files and the window is full, you’re given no empty area to click in.&lt;p&gt;I saw some people have the same issue [0] in the past, and it’s not really been fixed either [1].&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ubuntuforums.org&amp;#x2F;showthread.php?t=1150025&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ubuntuforums.org&amp;#x2F;showthread.php?t=1150025&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;GNOME&amp;#x2F;nautilus&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;3445&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;GNOME&amp;#x2F;nautilus&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;3445&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kaanyalova</author><text>There seems to be space to right click between the rows (although somewhat small space at the smallest list view), and left-right sides of the window.&lt;p&gt;There is an image showing the right clickable areas on the issue you linked&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;project&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;50ac36ab40f9049f4a823f77aa9a8a29&amp;#x2F;gr-files-right-click-zones.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;project&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;50ac36ab40f9049...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>