[Thunar-dev] Middle click drag to move files

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Wed Apr 26 18:57:26 CEST 2006


Biju Chacko wrote:
>>>Generally I only copy file when I'm backing them up, and  ninety percent
>>>of the time I'm moving them - into a folder I just made for better
>>>organization, to another hard drive with more free space, etc. Wouldn't
>>>it make sense if the default was move and you held shift to make a copy?
>>>
>>>Or do other people copy files more often?
>>
>>Maybe we should see an option later which let's the choice between copy or 
> 
> This is a cop-out. Never use an option as an excuse not to decide. It's 
> always better to just choose an intelligent default.

Exactly. Thunar is smarter now in guessing the default action. It should
be similar to Windows Explorer now (with the exception that Windows
Explorer does not care for file owners, while Thunar does).

> -- b

Benedikt



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