Feature request: show the Create Document submenu for List view

[N0rbert]

Expected behaviour

• "Create Document" submenu is shown

Actual behaviour

• "Create Document" submenu is not shown

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

1. Switch Caja to List view
2. Make right mouse click on any folder
3. Try to find "Create Document" submenu

MATE general version

1.24.1

Package version

1.24.0-1

Linux Distribution

Ubuntu MATE 20.10 (alpha)

Link to downstream report of your Distribution

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/caja/+bug/1896286

Notes:

1. the "Create Document" submenu is shown normally if clicked on empty space.
2. this functionality exists in Dolphin 20.08.1

[lukefromdc]

With caja from git master, this works fine in ICON view but indeed is not shown in list view. I think it has always worked this way. You are correct, this is a feature request, tagging it as such so the other devs will see it properly.

[Andy2No]

Having recently installed MATE desktop on top of of Pop!_Os 22.04, I'm having this problem because I'm used to using a folder view that's like List view.

However, I've noticed that if there are only a few files in a folder, and the window is big enough to leave some space at the bottom, then I can right click on that space and get the Create New option in Caja (with List view).

I'm not suggesting this as a solution, because it rarely applies, but it shows that Caja does have that capability.

I wonder if it would be possible to add gutters to list view, which would be treated as empty space, as with Windows, where I can right click to the left of the folder icons and file icons, or to the right of the file details, in Details view (which is equivalent to Caja's List view), to get a general context menu, rather than one relating to a specific file.

In Caja, there is no space to do that, so any right click relates to a file, unless it's in empty space below the list of files, which usually isn't there.