Re: [Thunar-dev] Invert selection action in Thunar

2007-10-31 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: Other than that, the patch looks good. Dunno how useful the Invert Selection feature is; atleast I've never seen a feature request for this besides the one from botsie. Maybe others can comment on this? Anybody who has used Norton Commander or Midnight Commander will be

Re: [Thunar-dev] samba

2006-09-15 Thread Biju Chacko
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:46:37 +0530, Matt McClinch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Snyder wrote: Auke Kok wrote: Why do people think that implementing a specific way to do X (in this case, mount a samba share or browse it, which is basically the same) should beling in a filemanager?

Re: [Thunar-dev] [solved] Order of files for humans

2006-09-10 Thread Biju Chacko
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:53:15 +0530, Olivier Fourdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Massonnet wrote: I know one useful case, when I am inside a project folder, I have all the important files listed first: README, TODO, [...]. Oh, so you're

Re: [Thunar-dev] Tabbed feature

2006-08-29 Thread Biju Chacko
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:15:02 +0530, Benedikt Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And even if the ways mentioned above doesn't solve the problem for a certain individual (for whatever unknown reason), the logical solution would be a twin pane mode, but not tabs. Or perhaps a tiling window

Re: [Thunar-dev] Recent document support

2006-07-31 Thread Biju Chacko
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:55:30 +0530, Benedikt Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Storing the tags in extended attributes would solve this issue with modern file systems (note that not all file systems offer fast extattr access), but it does not allow to query the files by tag. Hmmm ... you

Re: [Thunar-dev] Changing the mimetype of a file.

2006-07-27 Thread Biju Chacko
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:44:27 +0530, Benedikt Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Biju Chacko wrote: Hi, I have a kind of file: *.tjp that is plain text with a C-like syntax. Thunar thinks it's a C header and associates it accordingly. I'd like to change it's association without modifying

Re: [Thunar-dev] Changing the mimetype of a file.

2006-07-26 Thread Biju Chacko
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:43:40 +0530, Benedikt Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Biju Chacko wrote: Hi, I have a kind of file: *.tjp that is plain text with a C-like syntax. Thunar thinks it's a C header and associates it accordingly. I'd like to change it's association without modifying

Re: [Thunar-dev] Trash is back

2006-07-21 Thread Biju Chacko
Time for a trash can on the desktop? Or as a panel plugin? ;-) -- b On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:55:28 +0530, Benedikt Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forwarding news from my blog... http://xfce-diary.blogspot.com/2006/07/trash-is-back.html This should be especially interesting for Jani, as

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar view

2006-04-15 Thread Biju Chacko
Olivier Fourdan wrote: Hey, RaDaniel Christian 성준 wrote: Guys, please allow for this http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/8034/thunarimproved3sf.png It's already there :) http://www.xfce.org/~olivier/misc/thunar.png Btw, is there some kind of dependency for the Treeview? I'm not

[Thunar-dev] Good Work!

2006-02-28 Thread Biju Chacko
Hi, Thunar has become really good. Handling removable media was one thing that I was missing -- and that works perfectly well now. I guess the only major bit that I'm missing is a TreeView -- though I admit I've been getting along perfectly well without it. :-) I especially like the startup

Re: [Thunar-dev] Trash script

2006-02-21 Thread Biju Chacko
Stefan Stuhr wrote: If Thunar only will support ~/.Trash/ as trash folder, then the trash shouldn't be used for files on removable media. Besides that, ~/.Trash/ is definitely better than no trash at all. I keep hearing that -- but I don't believe it. A broken trash implementation is just

Re: [Thunar-dev] French Thunar article

2006-02-16 Thread Biju Chacko
LiNuCe wrote: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:13:54 +0100 - Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Erik Harrison wrote: Mouse gestures? Someone care to point me in the right direction? In the file window, if you click on the middle button (not on a file, on the background), you can navigate with the mouse in your

[Thunar-dev] Thunar + Hal

2006-02-14 Thread Biju Chacko
Hi, Just been trying out Thunar volume management. It seems a little flaky. 1. It only seems to recognise USB storage if it is plugged in while Thunar is running. 2. If you plugin a usb drive before starting Thunar it isn't displayed whether or not you mount it. 3. If you plug in the device

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar + Hal

2006-02-14 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: I'd like to say that I fixed it. But honestly, I have no clue whats going on here. On startup, I used FindDeviceByCapability(volume), which should - according to the documentation and my tests - return the list of all currently connected volumes, no matter if mounted or

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar + Hal

2006-02-14 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: Biju Chacko wrote: Oh crap. Now it crashes on startup with the following output: See my last reply to Jannis. Will check it out. Which replacement for pmount is provided on Fedora (btw. looking at the source, there doesn't seem to be anything that prevents it from

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar + Hal

2006-02-14 Thread Biju Chacko
Jannis Pohlmann wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:46:34 +0100 Benedikt Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jannis Pohlmann wrote: 0.5.3 Ah, ok, that's a bug in HAL (#5279). I added a work-around. HAL seems to be a mess, really. Now, I don't even see my USB drive anymore, if I plug it in

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar + Hal

2006-02-14 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: Benedikt Meurer wrote: Fedora uses a program called fstab-sync which seems to be part of the hal package. It updates fstab so non-root local users can mount removable disks. Aye, that'd do the job. I'll add a fallback then. Done. You rock, Benny! -- b

Re: [Thunar-dev] Some ideas to improve Thunar.

2006-01-31 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: So, to sum up, we don't touch it and leave it as KB/MB/GB? This would be best. PS: KiB/MiB/GiB would be ok too, if that helps to solve the problem. This would be confusing and overly pedantic, IMO. -- b ___ Thunar-dev mailing

Re: [Thunar-dev] Configure Custom Actions

2006-01-31 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: samuel verstraete wrote: not that i'm trying to convince you of course ;) but a keyboard shortcut for xfrun4 in the current directory would be cool too ;) One of the older ideas include integrating xfrun4 into Thunar and letting xfrun4 just call into a running

Re: [Thunar-dev] Configure Custom Actions

2006-01-31 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: Biju Chacko wrote: not that i'm trying to convince you of course ;) but a keyboard shortcut for xfrun4 in the current directory would be cool too ;) One of the older ideas include integrating xfrun4 into Thunar and letting xfrun4 just call into a running Thunar (using D

[Thunar-dev] Thunar Crash Report

2006-01-28 Thread Biju Chacko
Hi, Latest svn head: Thunar segfaults when entering a directory that contains broken symlinks. Here's the backtrace: #0 0x0806269f in thunar_file_get_for_info (info=0x1) at thunar-file.c:651 #1 0x0806387d in thunar_folder_infos_ready (job=0x0, infos=0x9e59750, folder=0x9f71ce0) at

Re: [Thunar-dev] Configure Custom Actions

2006-01-26 Thread Biju Chacko
Tim Alexander wrote: As I said earlier, take a look at emelfm. It's INCREDIBLY light wieght, and it has an embedded shell... Are you sure it's got an embedded shell? Or merely an embedded terminal emulator? -- b (who hasn't looked at emelfm yet)

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar 0.2.0 and libexo 0.3.1.2 alpha releases

2006-01-24 Thread Biju Chacko
Peter wrote: *|I don't know if the euros (or anyone else) reading this will understand the usage of the work sick, but that means big-fat-stamp-of-approval. It's everything I expected (and wanted) since I started following thunar development. Benedikt: thank you. Time to organise the

Re: [Thunar-dev] Easy browsing

2006-01-24 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: Vincent wrote: I don't know how easy this would be to implement, but wouldn't it be nice if, next to the folders which are displayed on top, there would be a downwards arrow which, when clicked on, will display all folders which are at the same level as the folder the

Re: [Thunar-dev] desktop

2005-11-24 Thread Biju Chacko
Brian J. Tarricone wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shawn wrote: I notice xffm-desktop doesn't play well with xfdesktops show minimized windows on desktop option. Will 'thunar --draw-desktop' be usable alongside this feature? AFAIK, xffm-deskview, 'thunar

Re: [Thunar-dev] Delete not working in Thunar

2005-10-03 Thread Biju Chacko
Broeisi Rast wrote: You're sure about that... When Thunar is ready all those basic features will be implemented.. But that's all I'm saying here That way I'm not getting some people here angry I don't think anybody is angry. What people are trying to say (with different levels of

Re: [Thunar-dev] Fwd: Thunar rather than later... it's a website!

2005-09-19 Thread Biju Chacko
Jannis Pohlmann wrote: Hey Erik, Erik Harrison schrieb: Very nice design, and well done indeed. However, is it possible to cut down on the size of the sidebar a few pixels. Pixels? No. See my answer to Yo'av's post. I think you need to specify that small fonts should be used. That

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thunar Extension Framework

2005-09-14 Thread Biju Chacko
Tim Tassonis wrote: Still, a simple file manager, as thunar is supposed to be, should work with files, as provided by the operating system vfs interface. I think the FUSE approach is the right one, it is not the job of a simple filemanager to provide a separate, better vfs layer. I hope

Re: [Thunar-dev] Fallback website

2005-09-09 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: Benedikt Meurer wrote: Jeff Franks wrote: Benedikt, Jasper, I'm just about finished the new layout pages using NO TABLES. I'm trying to choose the minimum web page width to minimize ugly overlap of page elements when the browser window is narrowed. Just out of

[Thunar-dev] Crash in Thunar Rev 17355

2005-09-06 Thread Biju Chacko
Hi, I experience a crash when I attempt a rename using the file properties dialog. This is consistent. The backtrace: (gdb) run Starting program: /opt/xfce4/bin/thunar Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done. Loaded system supplied DSO at 0xc86000 [Thread debugging

Re: [Thunar-dev] Thumbnails (again)

2005-09-04 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: Ok, we had that thumbnails discussion some time ago, and since there was no real consensus about which way to go (separate thumb view or thumbnails in all views), I just went the way most people seemed to prefer, having thumbnails in all views (we can still add a

Re: [Thunar-dev] Website status

2005-08-29 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: Nick Schermer wrote: I'm not really working on a website atm, but if more people will contribute, we can create a (simple) website for the first release of Thunar. I'd prefer to just merge the penguin design with the wiking (and probably adjust the fonts to be

Re: [Thunar-dev] View changing

2005-07-29 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: Stefan Stuhr wrote: Just had a thought about the (by now stale), image view discussion. How about a button (not sure where it would go, do context menus support toggles?) that you can click to change views, but can drag (drag'n'drop context menus? I've never tried to

Re: [Thunar-dev] Proposed preferences for Thunar

2005-06-29 Thread Biju Chacko
Benedikt Meurer wrote: Jaap Karssenberg wrote: IMHO if you make it look like the gtk filechooser make sure it behaves consistent with it. For the user it is very confusing when things look the same but behave differently. Besides, if the gtk people found this behaviour intuitive enough why