[Thunar-dev] Improving browsing in Thunar

[Benedikt Meurer]

LiNuCe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    Here is a small advice on improving navigation in Thunar.
> 
> The problem (and how to reproduce it)
> 
>    I go to /usr/doc where there are hundred of folders, I scroll down
> enough to be sure the folder I'm going to open is down enough to
> be out of the Thunar view if I scroll to the top of it :
> 
>       http://linuce.free.fr/screenshots/thunar-dev/thunar-browsing.0.png
> 
>    Now, I select bsd-games-2.13/ and I open this folder :
> 
>       http://linuce.free.fr/screenshots/thunar-dev/thunar-browsing.1.png
> 
>    Then, I go back to its parent folder, /usr/doc, either with the
> Back icon of the toolbar, or with the Parent icon of the toolbar
> (or with the Alt+Up keyboard shortcut) :
> 
>       http://linuce.free.fr/screenshots/thunar-dev/thunar-browsing.2.png
> 
>    As you can see on this screenshot, the Thunar view does not show
> the bsd-games-2.13/ folder from where I come from.
> 
> Expected results
> 
>    An expected result would be the Thunar view to select the
> bsd-games-2.13/ folder when going back from bsd-games-2.13/
> to /usr/doc (or at least to scroll the view in order to show it) :
> 
>       http://linuce.free.fr/screenshots/thunar-dev/thunar-browsing.3.png

Please try the attached patch (requires latest libexo, r20117). It
should do the trick. It's a bit different to the way it's done in
Nautilus tho. In Nautilus the scroll offset is associated with the
forward/back-history, which is IMHO not very useful in the context of
Thunar.

Benedikt
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