** Description changed: [Impact] - * One of the upstream changes changed behavior of clipboard copying files/directories from nautilus to applications accepting text only (e.g. gnome-terminal). In such case the pasted input is prefixed with: + * One of the upstream changes changed behavior of clipboard copying files/directories from nautilus to applications accepting text only (e.g. gnome-terminal). In such case the pasted input is prefixed with: x-special/nautilus-clipboard copy file:// This was not the case in earlier releases and this change has been reverted in later upstream releases. + Reverting the problematic commit will fix the usecase reported in this + bug (and all applications where copying from Nautilus and pasting the + data into a text-based input makes sense), but will break copying + to/from Desktop Icons extension. + + I recommend reporting the Desktop Icons extension issue (present already + in every later Ubuntu release) in a separate bug and track the fix + there. + [Test Plan] - 1. Open nautilus. - 2. Right-click on any file or directory and select 'Copy' from the context menu. - 3. Open gnome-terminal and right-click paste the contents of the clipboard. + 1. Open nautilus. + 2. Right-click on any file or directory and select 'Copy' from the context menu. + 3. Open gnome-terminal and right-click paste the contents of the clipboard. Expected result: path of the file/directory is pasted in the terminal. Actual result: pasted input is prefixed with "x-special/nautilus-clipboard copy file://" [Where problems could occur] - * There are some workarounds listed in the upstream bug so fixing the - root cause may break environments with those workarounds in place. + * There are some workarounds listed in the upstream bug so fixing the root cause may break environments with those workarounds in place. + * Reverting this change also limits functionality of the desktop icons extension shipped with Ubuntu. Namely: before the new clipboard API is used in desktop-icons (merge requests [1] and [2]) copying and pasting to/from the desktop extension to a nautilus will not be possible via keyboard shortcuts or context menu (dragging and dropping will remain to work). + + [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons/-/merge_requests/186 + [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons/-/merge_requests/195 [Other Info] - + Original bug description: Until Ubuntu 18.10 Nautilus does copy all selected filenames in simple Text format and this way you cold paste the selected files as a list to other programs: for example into the texteditor gedit. This was a very useful function if you have, for example, to upload a file to webmail or other web-service. You cold copy the file within nautilus and paste it directliy to the selection dialog or webfield to upload the file. Or if you wanted a simple List of all your files in a folder you where able to select all files with nautilus, copy and paste into gedit. This is not possible anymore. The output of natilus looks now like this: x-special/nautilus-clipboard copy file:///home/<user>/Schreibtisch/new%20document.txt Until Ubuntu 18.10 this looks like this: /home/<user>/Schreibtisch/new document.txt Steps to reproduce: 1. Select files with nautilus 2. Press Ctrl+C 3. open gedit 4. press Ctrl+V ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.32.1-0ubuntu0.19.04.0 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-27.28-generic 5.0.21 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-27-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed Sep 11 15:06:14 2019 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_nautilus:
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