Where is the menu function "copy", "cut" and "paste" in gnome nautilus/file 3.16.2

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Jun 12 16:08:49 UTC 2015


Allegedly, on or about 12 June 2015, Ed Greshko sent:
> And, besides, a place where you can click copy/paste is just a GUI
> doing CTRL-C/CTRL-V.  So, I don't know what added functionality would
> be supplied by a "classic menu".

For those who never knew the hotkeys, it gave you the function and
showed you what the hotkeys were.

Some people never remember any of the hotkeys.

For when there was no free space in the browser window to right-click
and get a pop-up menu (with paste options), the menu gave you the only
place you could use the mouse to pick the paste option.

For those who don't want to keep flitting between using the mouse and
the keyboard, you wanted to be able to do it all from one or the other.
And navigating, then selecting various files to copy, using the keyboard
alone, is a nightmare.

All in all, gnome is becoming a thorough nuisance to use.  And KDE has
never been a walk in the park, either.  I've been using mate for the
last couple of years, or so.  It has the simplicity of the old Gnome,
without the over-simplicity of the new Gnome, nor the over-complication
of KDE.  Not to mention, it's not the huge resource pig of Gnome or KDE.

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