[Thunar-dev] Rename looks a bit weird

[Erik Harrison]

On 9/2/05, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Jens Luedicke wrote:
> > Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> >
> >>>>And maybe it's nicer to expand the text dialog, so files
> >>>>with long names can be easily renamed (see Windows Explorer).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Don't understand this one.
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> > instead of an inline cell editing thingy a rename dialog (window)?
> > (this is what I would prefer).
> 
> I prefer to be consistent with other file managers here. And inline
> renaming seems to be the defacto default (except for some exotic file
> managers like ROX).

Rox's argument is that it's too close to double click, and too hard to
get right.

I've occasionally seen novice users rename files instead of open them,
and more often the opposite.

That said, I prefer inline

> 
> > jens
> 
> Benedikt
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