Add 'copy to' / 'move to' to the context menu
I'd like to propose a few improvements to the right-click menu, namely an ability to quickly copy or move the selected file(s) without cutting/copying and pasting them in multiple steps. Please mark this issue as an enhancement or a feature request.
A submenu to copy (and possibly another one for moving) selected file(s) to common destinations (home, desktop, bookmarks) is a very handy feature for the right-click menu, requiring only a single step for common copy/move operations. In the Copy to
menu, it would also be useful to have an option to Make duplicate (in the same folder)
instead of copying and pasting currently required.
It is true that this addition would make the right-click menu somewhat less compact, so I'd like to include a separate proposal to merge the proposed Copy to
menu with the existing very Windows-alike Send to
, to further improve it and make everything as useful and compact as possible. By only adding a Move to
menu entry and only extending/merging the Send to
with proposed Copy to
, a single addition to the menu should still keep it sufficiently short.
I have a third proposal as well, maybe the most "radical" one, to merge the proposed Move to
submenu with the existing Move to Trash
(and the configurable Delete
). This doesn't require any elongation of the current right-click menu at all, but the right-click deletion get a bit less accessible since accessing the submenu is required - so this one should possibly be configurable. The (sub)menu entries I propose to remain/be made configurable are inside the square brackets in the recap below.
To clarify and recap, this is the current state of the relevant options in the right-click menu:
-
Send To
: Desktop (Create Link), Bluetooth... Move to Trash
- [
Delete
]
Proposal A:
-
Send To
: Desktop (Create Link), Bluetooth... -
Copy to
/Send to
: Duplicate here, Desktop, Home, [Bookmarks]... -
Move to
: Desktop, Home, [Bookmarks]... Move to Trash
- [
Delete
]
Proposal B:
-
Copy to
/Send to
: Duplicate here, Desktop (Create Link), Desktop (Copy), Home, [Bookmarks], Bluetooth... -
Move to
: Desktop, Home, [Bookmarks]... Move to Trash
- [
Delete
]
Proposal C:
-
Copy to
/Send to
: Duplicate here, Desktop (Create Link), Desktop (Copy), Home, Bookmarks, Bluetooth... -
Move to
: Trash, [Delete file(s)], Desktop, Home, [Bookmarks]...