[Thunar-dev] View changing

[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 make one) onto the main pane to
>>>>become a "file" that "remebers" your view.  To get rid of it, just
>>>>"delete" it.  I suppose the biggest drawback is you would have to know
>>>>about it to use it.
>>>
>>>Hm, just read this one for the 6th or 7th time and I still don't get it. 
>>>Can you try to explain in a bit more detail?
>>
>>I think the idea is, that you can manually store the current view
>>settings for the current folder in the folder as a visible file, and
>>that you can just delete the file to delete the view settings.
> 
> 
> Hm, what about read-only folders?

I don't think he meant a *real* file. Just that the settings for a 
particular folder can be represented by an object that looks and acts 
like a file in that folder. Double-click it to edit the settings, delete 
it to clear the settings, copy it to clone the settings.

It's an interesting idea, but I'm a little sceptical. I suspect it'll be 
  confusing.

-- b