Kevin Olemoh wrote: > It seems that there is already a bug request related to the mouse hover > issue so I won't bother to file a dup its bug number 1509 in case you > were not aware.
Ah, yes, right. > Also there would only be two functions for either mouse > button with respect to commander style mouse selection not three all its > really doing is taking the functionality of ctrl+click the context menu > if handled by a time based setting the effect is just like that of > settings that control the amount of time one has to hover over a window > before focus is given to a window when one use mouse gives focus > settings in various wm's or DE's. One other way one could handle such a > setting is to map the context menu popup to ctrl+click so that one need > not deal with any time based setting for the mouse button assign to > tagging files. The problem is: The right mouse button in Thunar has already two functions, context menu and drag start. > As far as my first idea think of it like this say you have one directory > with a bunch of files in it and you want to move groups of those files > to different places on a drive or even different network locations. > Think about what you have to do with most conventional non commander > style file managers: > > 1. Select group of files then either: > A. Dive through your directory tree to the destination directory which > can become a real pain if its more than five levels deep. Keep in mind > that if you are using a sinlge window you won't be able to see which > files you selected to begin with making it entirely possible that you > actually forget what it was that you selected in the first place. > B. Open a totally seperate instance of the file manager and then move to > the desired destination. [Waste of screen real estate to juggle two > windows of the same program given that it is wholly concievable that one > wants to see both the source directory and the destination directory at > the same time.] You can also just Copy/Cut the selected files and Paste it into the target folder, without having to open a new window or support tabs. > I couldn't find the discussion relating to the the terminal in the > mailing list archive.could you point me to it? A search for "thunar-dev"+tabs on google should bring up the threads. > 1. Treating archives like a virtual filesystem [IE. when you click on > them the archive gets treated like a directory.] without the need for a > seperate program (I'm aware of the plan to integrate xarchiver and > thunar but I think that its a bit supurfluous if the fm can support > archives directly.) coupled with dual pane this sort of thing makes > extracting archives far more convinient. Also discussed, maybe for a 2.0. > 2. The ability to assign hotkeys to folder bookmarks so that using the > hotkey takes one directly to the folder assigned to the key. Not possible with the current .gtk-bookmarks solution, maybe with the new desktop bookmark standard. > 3. The ability to hide the side pane Ctrl+B/Ctrl+T/F9 > 4. I think it would be a good idea to be able to drag files over to a > bookmark in the side pane and have the folder open up in the window at > the right or to allow te file being dragged to be moved to the directory > referenced by the bookmark. [Yea I know I could use the folder tree in > the side pane but its not so great because the folders I would use this > feature on have somewhat long directory names and often on totally > seperate drives making navigating to them that way overly cumbersome.) There's a patch for this in the "Some minor thingies..." thread. Read the thread and you'll see why this wasn't applied. If you can figure out the legal stuff, I'll apply it. > 5. As an outgrowth of the pattern selection option[Which is an excellent > feature and whoever thought of it is a friggin genius!] it would be good > to be able to filter files based on patterns so that only files matching > the pattern are visible for as long as the filter is applied. Yep, I already thought of this. Maybe for 2.0. You can file a bug report to remind me of this. Benedikt PS: With all the recent feature requests, I'd really like to remind everybody that we're preparing for a BETA and its time for stabilization now. Also, keep in mind that some of these features are really heavy and will definitely turn Thunar into Nautilus/Konqueror/ROX wrt to bad performance and bad usability. _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
