I agree with David - if this is intentional behaviour, it's quite
unintuitive. I'd suffered through it for a couple of weeks, just
thinking that the context/file menu choice was random. I only realised
that the difference in behaviour was due to clicking on a part of the
file listing with text versus no text after finding this bug report.

Clicking on the empty space *below* the files has always seemed more
intuitive to me. And if multiple items are selected, right-clicking
anywhere on the highlighted region should bring up the file menu, not a
random menu depending on where in the selected region you click.

I do take Shinoda's point, though, that if the list fills the whole
viewpoint and you want the old behaviour, there's nowhere to click.

Do we actually need two seperate menus, though? I don't see anything in
the context menu that can't be put into the right-click file menu, apart
from "properties". But this can be obtained by right-clicking on the
directory name, which makes sense, because they are directory
properties.

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