[Thunar-dev] Virtual root node

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> I came across this question yesterday evening:
> 
> Should we have a virtual root node like `Computer' (Gnome) or something 
> like that? So all other nodes (Filesystem, Home, Removable Media) are 
> children of that node.
> 
> The reasons leading to this:
> 
>  1) With the current design ideas, we have a special URI media type 
> 'home://' that refers to files belows the users home directory. And 
> going `Up' from 'home://' should not be possible (atleast it should not 
> jump to 'file:///usr/home' then). But not being able to go `Up' from 
> $HOME is a bit too restrictive and not very easy.

If you want to see this problem, install xffm 4.3, run xfce4-fm, click 
on 'Home' and then click on the 'Up' arrow. You'll end up in /usr/home. 
Since you started in another directory (actually some kind of virtual 
root node), and the 'Home' item wasn't marked as `symbolic link' in any 
way, you'd expect to go back to that virtual root node when pressing 'Up'.

Benedikt