Create new file from File Manager current folder

Great Desktop job, Fedora 40 with GNOME 46 Is a masterpiece, now could you guys add a feature to create new file from context menu in GNOME file manager to be able to create anything like a text or an office document or any common files you can come up from the current folder instead of opening an instance of text editor and then having to browse the location to save It to? Especially helpful when youre editing files from File browser and need to make a new one like a bash script or a txt file or Idk, anything.

Thanks, keep up the good work, in Fedora 40 with that clear blue default wallpaper youre now topping KDE when it comes to design


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Thanks!

Could also use a show desktop icon!


I have no idea why you felt the need to add a bunch of screenshots, to be honest…

Create a “Templates” folder in your home, and then add all the types of files and templates you want to. You’ll get a new entry in the context menu.

See: Creating and using Nautilus templates - Fedora Magazine

Because I love the new GNOME it looks awesome!

I would like to add that it won’t work if the command xdg-user-dir TEMPLATES return something like : /home/<username> - and I often encountered this case.

So for the folks where the Templates directory seems not to work, you can fix it this way :

  • simply update ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
  • and make sure to have XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates" (it can be something else than Templates)
  • then in a terminal :
    • xdg-user-dirs-update
    • followed by a: killall nautilus
    • re-open the file manager and should now work as expected.

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