Background:
The right-click context menu is materially different when a file is being right-clicked on, or if a "blank" area is being clicked on. If a file is right-clicked on, the context menu for that file is invoked. If a "blank" area is clicked on, the context menu for that folder is invoked.
This is easy to do in icon view, as there is almost always a blank area. However finding a non-file area to right-click on in list view is impossible once a certain number of files are present.
Request:
Allow an off-list area that can be right clicked on in list view.
Possible methods:
- Currently columns must fill the entire width of a list view. Allow this to not be the case by not setting the filename column as auto-expanding when the window is resized. Thus widening the window would create blank space at the right edge of the list of columns. And/or the width of the rightmost column can be allowed to be changed and not locked to the right window edge.
- Allow scrolling past the end of the file list, creating blank space under the list of files when scrolling is continued downwards, OR create a mandatory single "empty" entry at the bottom of the list.
- BOTH
Benefit
This will allow access to both types of right-click context information to all users, regardless of whether they use list or icon view.
Background:
The right-click context menu is materially different when a file is being right-clicked on, or if a "blank" area is being clicked on. If a file is right-clicked on, the context menu for that file is invoked. If a "blank" area is clicked on, the context menu for that folder is invoked.
This is easy to do in icon view, as there is almost always a blank area. However finding a non-file area to right-click on in list view is impossible once a certain number of files are present.
Request:
Allow an off-list area that can be right clicked on in list view.
Possible methods:
Benefit
This will allow access to both types of right-click context information to all users, regardless of whether they use list or icon view.