[Thunar-dev] Some inconveniences in my point of view

[jaanus]

Li Jason wrote:

> Hi, I noticed the Thunar project some days ago by accident. To tell 
> the truth, I like Thunar, it is simple and easy to use, nice and kind. 
> But during my trial period, I find some inconvenient problems:
> 1. Why the mouse drag motion in the Thunar is a copy action? For 
> instance, when I drag a file into one folder, the file will be copied 
> into that folder, not the originally move action. I am curious about it.

hold down shift and it will move, hold down ctrl to copy, simple :)

> 2. When I use the Ctrl+X or Ctrl+C, there is no notification in the 
> Thunar, I believe that it is kind of not user-friendly. I suggest that 
> there should be some information shown in the Thunar interface when 
> the user press Ctrl+X or Ctrl+C.

as Yves already said, they are grayed out

>
> 3. Another problem is about the Delete action, the delete action in  
> Thunar is permanently deleted, a trash folder will be needed to avoid 
> some mistakes.

this will be implemented later, patience

> 4. The Thunar could not refresh the active folder by itself, when I 
> create a new file or folder in the terminal, and the Thunar has 
> already make that folder opened, I hope the Thunar could automatically 
> refresh the new file out, but it cannot. Only when I change to another 
> folder, and change it back, the new file will be shown in Thunar.

compile with gamin support

> 5. The Thunar could not create a new file, only the new folder is 
> supported.

yeah, latest revision has that support already

>
> I am looking forward to the new features coming out soon.:)
>
> ps: The Thunar version I used is Thunar 0.2.0alpha-r19548
>
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