Re: [Thunar-dev] Minor things part $PREVIOUS++

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:33:22 -0800



Benedikt Meurer wrote: 
Harold Aling wrote:
  
That's the expected behaviour. When you delete the selected item(s),
nothing will be selected. What you requested was that the cursor/anchor
should be moved to the next item, and that's what it does now.

      
Ah, sorry if I wasn't clear on what I suggested. I indeed would like
thunar to select the next available item in the same view I'm deleting
files in.
    

This would be rather confusing as default behaviour for ExoIconView.

  
I use my keyboard a lot so if I want to delete file A and C in a list of
(...) A B C (...), I'd like to use this key sequence: <navigate to A
with the down arrow key><del><enter><arrow down><del><enter>
    

You can select multiple files at once using Ctrl/Shift, and delete them
using a single <del> key press.
I know what the alternatives are, but when browsing through a bunch of files, I delete them one at a time. This is how I do it for years now in Explorer. Detailed list, arrow keys and page down/up to go down/up the list and then hit delete when I want to delete a file.

It isn't that I don't want to comply with the default behavior of ExoIconView, this is how I feel it should be implemented because it's the natural way to behave... Even my girlfriend found the current behavior a bit awkward, and she is more of a mouse-type.

It can't be that I'm the only one who thinks this should be the default behavior? Or am I?
Benedikt
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