Comment 7 for bug 109926

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.