Nautilus File Manager Gets More Features Ahead of the GNOME 46 Release - 9to5Linux

They intentionally removed this feature years ago. It was possible to reenable via a dconf setting for a while but I believe that was also eventually removed.
So annoying.

++ Compact view (as Nemo calls it)

Yay, basic features needing weird workarounds!

Edit: it seems like it, but we were wrong. You dont need a filepath, you can literally copy the file and paste it to a

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Can someone give me a situation where you cant paste a file and it inserts the filepath instead?

I should try that thanks!
Though I still believe that UX would benefit from such a button, there's a Nautilus extension for it as well chr314/nautilus-copy-path, I think it deserves to be native

Putting the following with executable permissions inside ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/SCRIPTNAME adds a right click menu to Nautilus that serves the same purpose:

#!/bin/bash

CLIPBD=''
[[ "${XDG_SESSION_TYPE}" == "x11" ]] && CLIPBD='xsel -ib'
[[ "${XDG_SESSION_TYPE}" == "wayland" ]] && CLIPBD='wl-copy --trim-newline' && wl-copy --clear

echo -n "${NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS}" \
  | tee >(xargs -I {} notify-send "Path Copied:" "{}") \
  | ${CLIPBD}

The 'notify-send' bit isn't necessary; it just puts up a notification.

Mentioning only because it's a simple demonstration of a pretty easy way to extend Nautilus for all kinds of purposes; w/o messing around with the pygobject interface. (There's supposed to be an xdg standard for file manager extensions like this, but managers use their own custom folders, syntax, etc. for such extensions. I think pcmanfm adheres to the standard; Dolphin requires a .desktop file somewhere; Thunar, Caja, & Nemo work similar to Nautilus.)

Yes, Gnome is context aware if you ctrl+c a an image file, and you paste it to a text editor it will paste it as a path, if you paste it in an image editor it will be pasted as an image, if the program supports it (e.g. it works in Krita, but not in Pinta)

Drag and drop is not working because of Wayland. Between 2 windows of the same app, e.g. Nautilus it's working.

Aside from ios, I don't know of anywhere that has a monopoly on file managers

Ranger is amazing, I never thought to use it as my default file manager

Both hell no. I think pcmanfm-qt is the only good Filemanager apart Dolphin and Nautilus. But it also lacks many things.

The "type to filter" feature is awesome and way more useful than dolphins search.

I used it during a time where Dolphin always crashed for weird reasons, and it was tolerable

No. :) Those are even less full featured than nautilus.

On the desktop I am safe from most ads, but on mobile some pages are more pain than others.