[Thunar-dev] Copying/renaming filenames

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Wed Feb 1 22:29:53 CET 2006


Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>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.

Done.

Benedikt



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