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GNOME's Nautilus file manager is finally matching the behavior of other file managers like KDE's Dolphin and Xfce's Thunar with a keyboard shortcut for copying and pasting files.

This Week in GNOME highlighted a notable albeit one could argue long overdue change for GNOME Files / Nautilus: Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert support for copying and pasting files.

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[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What's actually missing from Nautilus and the GNOME file picker is a sane sort by type where the subsorting is by name, and not whatever GNOME chooses