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Add "Copy To" and "Move To" to the right click menu #417

Open ghost opened 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

While Elementary Files does have an effective copy and paste, I believe a worthwhile addition would be to add "Copy To" and "Move To" to the right click menu, much like Nautilus Files has (see below image). When you do a fair amount of copy/move/paste, I find this to be a huge time saver, more so than having two windows of the file manager open for dragging and dropping.

There may be a way for individuals to add this on their own, but after quite some time searching online, I haven't been able to find where anyone has done that.

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cassidyjames commented 6 years ago

@AJReissig what happens in Nautilus when selecting those items?

ghost commented 6 years ago

You have a new window that pops open and you can select where you want the file (or files) copied or moved. See below image. move_dialog

jeremypw commented 1 year ago

@danirabbit Does having a more extensive context menu fit with elementary design principles - is there a compact way of achieving this?

danirabbit commented 1 year ago

@jeremypw after the Gtk4 port we can probably do things to make the menu a lot more organized/compact with a popover. I'm not personally opposed to this feature if you think it makes sense. It looks like it's just opening a file chooser dialog?

jeremypw commented 1 year ago

Yes it looke like its just a question of opening a filechooser and performing the operation. Only question is whether to open the target folder in Files afterwards. Anyway, can be left until after the port.