[Thunar-dev] Few suggestions, again...

[Mikko Linnalo]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 23:17 +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > I was thinking (dangerous!), could it be possible to add "Show hidden
> > files" option also to right click menu when clicking on top of empty
> > space in Thunar? This is feature I find myself using more and more all
> > the time, and righ click menu is the 1st place I always look (haven't
> > learned yet). Ctrl-H just seems too hard to press with my tiny hands.
> 
> Hm, dunno. "Show hidden files" shouldn't be used very often. I'd say, if
> you find yourself hitting Ctrl+H very often, something is wrong with
> your way of organizing your files. But as said, dunno...

Maybe it just me then. I found fast access to hidden files usefull
atleast when playing around with config files and modifying themes, not
a common use case for oridinary user I guess...

> > Other thing, is there any plans to include a "Create launcher" feature
> > to File and right click menus? Creating those .desktop files with text
> > editor (templates) might be quite hard for some/most ordinary users. I
> > realize this might take a lot of effort, but maybe something can be
> > shared from xfce4-panel?
> 
> Actually pretty easy. I want to put such a tool into libexo once I've
> finished the ExoIconChooser class. That'd be used by xfdesktop (and
> later ThunarDesktop) to create new launchers.

Good to hear. These probably won't make it to 4.4 though?

Br,
Mikko