[Thunar-dev] Middle click drag to move files

[Aaron]

On 4/25/06, Anders Conbere <aconbere at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ooop, shift drag will work just fine for me.  Thanks :)
>
> ~ Anders
>
> On Tue, 2006-25-04 at 19:20 +0200, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > anders conbere wrote:
> > > Something I've always appreciated about Rox was the simplicity by which you
> > > could preform basic file management tasks.  In many ways Thunar has done a
> > > great job of achieving these same ends.
> > >
> > > Something I've somewhat been bothered by however is the difficulty in moving
> > > files.  Which as far as I can tell one can only do by cutting and pasting
> > > the files from one folder to the next.
> > >
> > > In Rox I would use the middle click and drag function to move my files from
> > > folder to folder.  This coupled with the folders springing open meant I
> > > could do most of my file management without ever opening a context menu.
> > > I'm not sure if this has been suggested yet or thought about, but I haven't
> > > seen it float by the mailing list.
> > >
> > > Anyways thanks for all the hard work.
> >
> > Thunar provides the standard GTK mechanims for DnD move, holding down
> > Shift while moving the files. In addition, you can also use the windows
> > explorer like right-click drag to open the context menu on the drag target.
> >
> > >  ~Anders
> >
> > Benedikt

acctaully, i think thats a good idea. i was moving some files, and
shift click was just seeming a bit out of the way, but so is middle
clicking everything...