[Thunar-dev] Hi everybody, suggestions from a new member

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benjamin COHEN BOULAKIA wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
> I've just subscribed to this mailing list, because I find this Thunar project
> interesting. I'm a PhD student at Versailles University, in France. I'm not a
> great programmer, but I have some basic experience.
> 
> I looked into the mailing list archive before posting, but I may have missed
> some posts, so it's possible that I talk about some suggestions already
> discussed...
> 
> First, about the location bar. I find it could be a good idea if it had auto-
> completion. I already coded some kind of support for this, but I was wondering
> how to present it : should I send a patch for the current Thunar snapshot, or
> just provide a sample code for other members to incorporate and test it ?

As Jens said, send a patch (diff -u preferred).

> A second point is about spatial behavior. Maybe the discussion is over, or what
> I think of it has already be explained many told, but I didn't find it into the
> archives, so here is my point : I agree that having too many windows is the
> main problem here, but a simple way to circumvent this is to provide a
> way to both open a directory and close its parent in just one action, like
> double middle click.

That was the idea and this is how it was implemented in the spatial 
prototype.

> Ben,

greets,
Benedikt