[Thunar-dev] Copying/renaming filenames

[Benedikt Meurer]

Christian Lundgren wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found a quite annoying thing about Thunar, if you press F2 to rename a
> file then Ctrl+C to copy the selected text they string copied to the
> clipboard becomes something like: file:///tmp/test instead of just the
> name test. This becomes even more annoying when you trying to rename a
> file to the name you just copied, when you edit the name and press
> Ctrl-V. Thunar, instead of editing the name, copies the file (/tmp/test
> in this example). I hope you understood some of what I'm trying to
> explain...

Yeah, I know. This is because the inline editing doesn't work well with
the ui manager stuff (-> accelerators). I plan to open a rename dialog
instead (-> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413). This way we
can also support renaming multiple files quite easily in the future.

> /Christian Lundgren

Benedikt