Dear Maintainer,

Imagine you use a pen, finger or single button mouse, so in short do not have a right mouse button.
Then in Nautilus select any file or directory and try to rename it.
It seems to me there should be a "rename" option in the (hamburger) menu, but it is not there and can't find it in any of the other menus either.
So for me it is impossible to rename a file or directory with Nautilus.

It only seems possible using:
- the right mouse button (using a pen, not a mouse (which then also must have a right mouse button)).
- the right-windows-key or whatever the official key is which "Windows keyboard" have that pop-up the same menu you get when right-clicking a file or directory in Nautilus (but a "Mac keyboard" does not have that key).
- the finger navigation pad available on most laptops to generate a right mouse button click (but i don't have that on a desktop computer and with the one on the Macbook pro, i can not generate a right-click, only left-click).
- the key-board shortcut of Nautilus to rename a file or directory, but i am not aware such a key combination exists.

So for me it is impossible to rename a file or directory.
This problem introduced itself by an automatic apt upgrade of the system that introduced the current Nautilus(/Gnome) version 3.14.x

Solution for me would be to bring back the "rename" option that was dropped from the menu, like in that (hamburger) menu that still contains the usual options to create files/directories and things like undo, redo, paste, select all.
And i would find it logical that other than "rename" that should be brought back again, also "copy" and such should be in there even though those can be done with CTRL+C/X/V, because with drag and drop you can not enforce a copy instead of a move.

Control: retitle 780521 nautilus: not easy to rename files without a right mouse button
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It's non-obvious, but Shift+F10 also does this (the same as in
e.g. Windows), so you don't strictly need the "menu key" to use
this method.

This is also non-obvious, but the keyboard shortcut to rename
is F2.

That's a reasonable feature request, and would make this more
discoverable.

Regards,
    S

Thanks for the key-combination tips, as i did not know them.
But i assume you realize that the majority of users don't know them and/or won't be able to remember them either.
And you probably also realize that more many modern keyboards do not even have direct function keys anymore and require some key combination already to which your key combination tips then have to combined on top of those.
Even worse to impossible with virtual/onscreen keyboards and modern applications not making use of any i imagine there will soon(/already?) be keyboards not having function keys at all.

Yes, and that's why I didn't close the bug, only retitled it.

"Impossible to rename files" would be a very serious bug for a file
manager; "renaming files is harder than it ought to be" is less serious,
but still a bug.

    S