[Thunar-dev] open location & autocompletion

[Benedikt Meurer]

Kresimir Spes wrote:
> I'm not sure if this has been asked before, I couldn't find it in the archives:
> 
> when I use "Open Location" in Thunar (Ctrl + L), and start writing the path, 
> when there is only one choice left, it autoselects it and pastes it in the 
> textbox. I find this very irritating because my locations look weird :)
> I'm used to nautilus and konqueror displaying a dropdown list from which you can 
> then select one of possibile locations.
> Can this option be changed in the config files or something like that?
> 
> (I'm using the latest version of thunar from SVN trunk)
> 
> anyway, a big round of aplause to the dev team; I've tried many file managers 
> and Thunar is IMHO by far the best!

The path entry widget in Thunar automatically completes if there's only
one choice left and pops up a completion box if more than one
file/folder matches, just like GtkFileChooser. Nautilus 2.14 atleast
does not display a completion box, but otherwise behaves the same.

Benedikt