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.


The most exciting new thing in Gnome is a new shortcut in Nautilus. What has happened to the project?
If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.
I’ve heard “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.” WAY TOO MANY times.
If it ain’t broken, it can be better; improve it.
It’s gnome, it was likely broken deliberately in the name of “simplicity”