Comment 10 for bug 61237

I experience this as well, but not with the limitation others have mentioned of having to have lots of items to fill up the list view. For me, I can't drag and drop to any folder in list view, no matter how few items are in it, at least with file-roller. Changing to icon view allows me to drag and drop just fine.

While Goswin's other issue of not being able to drag to select files ("lasso'ing") may be a separate bug report, I wouldn't be surprised if it was somehow related, as with the right-click issues. Overall, something funky is going on with the unused portion of the window (where there aren't icons) in the list view, and the view in general.