[Thunar-dev] various observations

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> Don't really know how this should work but I got the feeling a lot of 
> users are going to expect drag-n-drop using the left mouse button 
> because this is how the iconview works and also how a lot of other 
> programs behave.

Should be fairly easy to fix GtkTreeView. You can file a bugreport to
GNOME bugzilla. Maybe I'll attach a patch to that during the weekend.

> A) The text besides the icons is wrapped to multiline when it is longer 
> than X characters. This causes a lot of whitespace because it makes 
> other items in the same row assume the same hight. Also there is a lot 
> of spacing in the icon view which is still there when text is besides 
> the icons.
> 
> I put two screenshots in 
> http://zoidberg.student.utwente.nl/~pardus/tmp/thunar_screenshots/ to 
> illustrate this.
> 
> But I'll admit this is a purely cosmetic wish-list item.
> 
> B) The icon view is ordered left to right but when I'm visually scanning 
>   lists I expect a top to bottom order in the columns. Of course I can 
> get used to scanning left to right, but it won't feel real natural for 
> lists.

List-View mode could be added to ExoIconView, but I don't feel like
doing this for 4.4. You can file a feature request to remind me of this
later.

> Anyway, keep up the good work!
> -- Jaap <pardus at cpan.org>

Benedikt