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[Impact]

 * One of the upstream changes changed behavior of clipboard copying files/directories from nautilus to applications accepting text only (e.g. gnome-terminal). In such case the pasted input is prefixed with:
x-special/nautilus-clipboard
copy file://

This was not the case in earlier releases and this change has been
reverted in later upstream releases.

[Test Plan]

 1. Open nautilus.
 2. Right-click on any file or directory and select 'Copy' from the context menu.
 3. Open gnome-terminal and right-click paste the contents of the clipboard.

Expected result: path of the file/directory is pasted in the terminal.
Actual result: pasted input is prefixed with "x-special/nautilus-clipboard
copy file://"

[Where problems could occur]

 * There are some workarounds listed in the upstream bug so fixing the
root cause may break environments with those workarounds in place.

[Other Info]
 
Original bug description:

Until Ubuntu 18.10 Nautilus does copy all selected filenames in simple
Text format and this way you cold paste the selected files as a list to
other programs: for example into the texteditor gedit. This was a very
useful function if you have, for example, to upload a file to webmail or
other web-service. You cold copy the file within nautilus and paste it
directliy to the selection dialog or webfield to upload the file.

Or if you wanted a simple List of all your files in a folder you where
able to select all files with nautilus, copy and paste into gedit. This
is not possible anymore. The output of natilus looks now like this:

x-special/nautilus-clipboard
copy
file:///home/<user>/Schreibtisch/new%20document.txt

Until Ubuntu 18.10 this looks like this:

/home/<user>/Schreibtisch/new document.txt

Steps to reproduce:
1. Select files with nautilus
2. Press Ctrl+C
3. open gedit
4. press Ctrl+V

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.32.1-0ubuntu0.19.04.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-27.28-generic 5.0.21
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Sep 11 15:06:14 2019
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_nautilus:

** Affects: nautilus
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: New

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
     Assignee: Dariusz Gadomski (dgadomski)
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu Focal)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Dariusz Gadomski (dgadomski)
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug disco sts sts-sponsor-dgadomski third-party-packages
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Nautilus doesn't copy filenames for paste to other programs anymore
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1843588
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