Public bug reported:

This is really just annoying. It does not really impair anything, a very
easy workaround is to temporarily switch to grid view and right-click on
an empty spot between the grid cells. Then you can make a new
file/folder.

If the title didn't make sense, here's a more detailed explaination:
When viewing a lengthy folder in Nautilus, such as your Documents folder or 
your home directory, and you are in list view, the list of files in the folders 
is likely longer than your screen, so you need to scroll. Not a problem, right? 
Definitely not, but there's one thing: you can't create new files or folders 
when this is true. Because normally, when the list is not longer than the 
screen can display at once, there's  (a lot of) empty space for you to 
right-click and create new things. But when there's not, you can't do that, 
because there's no empty space.

My suggested fix would to add a button to create new files or folders on
the menu when you right click a file/folder, and not just empty space.

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. My nautilus version is
"1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.7", which seems to be the latest, or at least for my
OS version.

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Cannot create folders in list mode if it is longer than the screen

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