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.
If for some reason you paste a file in telegram/slack/discord/teams, it tries to send the file, so I have no way of sending the path to the file (which might be on a shared device) to someone unless I paste it in a text editor first and then copy the text.
Cool, but is copy path to file a thing yet?
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++ as well as searching on a folder simply by the first letter, without searching everywhere
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.
It’s absolutely insanity that this feature was removed. I stopped using Nautilus because of this.
++ Compact view (as Nemo calls it)
Copy the file and paste it into anywhere you can enter text… you get the path to the file as text.
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
Can someone give me a situation where you cant paste a file and it inserts the filepath instead?
I’m on KDE, how does KDE do it better?
On dolphin, you right click on it and than there is “copy path to file” button
How is it better if you are going to paste it anyway? I mean, on GNOME you would have to just copy the file, instead of the two clicks on KDE.
Am I missing something?
If for some reason you paste a file in telegram/slack/discord/teams, it tries to send the file, so I have no way of sending the path to the file (which might be on a shared device) to someone unless I paste it in a text editor first and then copy the text.
That’s a very logical use case. Are there any keyboard modifiers you could use? Maybe pasting with CTRL+SHIFT+V for example?