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  1. Bug #51043
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 51043

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lenooh (lenooh) wrote : Re: "rightclick -> paste" missing in contextmenu when pointer is above files/folders

I have read the comments at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94618 and it's really a shame that they still haven't fixed that bug in all those years! (the bug was first reported in 2002)

I really don't know why are they complicating it so much.
Like I said, the easiest solution in my opinion would be if right-mouse clicking would not select files. Left-mouse click selects file, right-mouse click brings up the context menu. If no file was selected before right-clicking, then the context menu is directory related, otherwise it is file related.