How to enable file creation from nautilus right-click menu on Gnome?

Question

I have got Ubuntu Gnome 15.04, with Gnome Shell, and Gnome 3.14, and I have noticed that unlike with Unity, Nautilus does not have the option to create different files with a right-click, just the ability to create a new folder. How can I add this option?

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OS Information:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 15.04
Release:    15.04
Codename:   vivid

Package Information:

nautilus:
  Installed: 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu9.1
  Candidate: 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu9.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu9.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.14.2-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages

Solution

Create a new (empty) file with the file type of your choice in ~/Templates, eg a simple (txt) file:

touch ~/Templates/empty.txt

After that you can create a new file with a right click in Nautilus.

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Example screenshot

Comments

[HMagdy]

refer this also askubuntu.com/questions/777711/…

[Ismael Miguel]

Did you meant "file type"?

[A.B.]

@IsmaelMiguel file type?

[Ismael Miguel]

On your first line, you have "Create a new (empty) file with the fily type of your choice[...]" (notice the fily type).

[A.B.]

@IsmaelMiguel ah, ok =), you could make the correction and get 2 points ;)

[Ismael Miguel]

It doesn't let me do 1-char edits with such low reputation.

[A.B.]

@IsmaelMiguel ah sorry, I forgot.

[Ismael Miguel]

Don't worry. You got my upvote anyway.

[Mohammed Joraid]

Didn't work for me Ubuntu 16.10 and that sucks.

[xeruf]

worked for me on Ubuntu 17.04 - the name of the "Templates" folder may be localized (it's "Vorlagen" in german). Check XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR in .config/user-dirs.dirs