GNOME’s Nautilus file manager is finally matching the behavior of other file managers like KDE’s Dolphin and Xfce’s Thunar with a keyboard shortcut for copying and pasting files.
This Week in GNOME highlighted a notable albeit one could argue long overdue change for GNOME Files / Nautilus: Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert support for copying and pasting files.
i use CTRL C and CTRL V … What am I missing here?
Nothing if that works for you, but sometimes I end up using Ctrl+Insert / Shift+Insert a lot because I am doing a lot of things in the terminal and Ctrl+C has a different meaning there, so it is nice for Ctrl+Insert / Shift+Insert to work everywhere for when I have it in my muscle memory.
TIL I always used Ctrl+shift+v
This keybind could help save me confusion when I switch between pasting in terminal and pasting in browser.
I’m guessing it’s for those godforsaken left-handed mousers.
Essentially nothing. They copied the shortcuts from Thunar and Dolphin for copy paste.
I’m a gnome guy but always swap to Thunar on a fresh install.
What’s better with Thunar?
It’s probably just that I got used to it with XFCE at some point. My main two concerns:
- I love having the path in the navbar (and not have to Ctrl-L)
- I don’t like having devices tucked behind “Other Locations” rather than in the sidebar
Otherwise, I find Nautilus much more aesthetically pleasing.
Agree that Nautilus is the most beautiful/clean, but almost the least functional. Maybe those two are in fact inversely proportional, eh.
I swapped to nemo, I like the plugins like the built in terminal
What’s actually missing from Nautilus and the GNOME file picker is a sane sort by type where the subsorting is by name, and not whatever GNOME chooses
The most exciting new thing in Gnome is a new shortcut in Nautilus. What has happened to the project?
If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.
It’s gnome, it was likely broken deliberately in the name of “simplicity”
The sad thing is that this is true. They removed entirely all settings related to dash in name of simplicity.
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With all the bleating about how GNOME does not listen to users, these kinds of little quality of life improvements may be more significant than you think. Let’s hope we see more of them.
Most of the exciting GNOME changes are in mutter rather than the shell.
This release we got a lot of efficiency and performance improvements which are exciting but not news headline clickbait exciting.
I’ve read about deletion of x11 support entirely. I hope this will lead to more focus on wayland protocols.
Reaching feature stability? It’s been around for decades.
