[Thunar-dev] Right-clickable pathbar?

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 17.02.2006, 16:01 +0530 schrieb Biju Chacko:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > Peter wrote:
> > 
> >>Right now, when one clicks the pathbar, well, nothing happens.  Would it
> >>be feasible to make pathbar buttons have the same right-click menu as a
> >>folder in the main view would?  I searched bugzilla and couldn't find
> >>anything, but is this in the works?  Shall I submit a feature request?
> > 
> > 
> > Remember, the path bar is a replacement for the (text-based) location
> > bar, not for the icon/detail view, and as such, its primary (and
> > probably its sole) purpose is navigation. The only action from the
> > context menu that may make sense here, is the "Open in new Window" action.
> 
> I agree that the path bar is a replacement for the location bar. 
> However, what is it's main advantage over the location bar? The fact 
> that it turns each path element into a manipulateable object. Each 
> button represents a shortcut to a directory. As such you should be able 
> to treat it like a directory in the iconview.
> 
> So you should be able to drag and drop to a button, right-click and get 
> the standard directory context menu.

The Drag+Drop also solves the age old problem on *where* to (drag-)drop
a file in a window which is showing a directory with lots of items (i.e.
no empty space to drop it to): onto the path button of the current
directory :)

cheers,
  Danny