[Thunar-dev] paste into details view problems

[Benedikt Meurer]

sofar wrote:
>>>I'm having a very silly problem with detailed view - when my viewport
>>>is filled up completely there is no whitespace left to paste into.
>>>This doesn't seem to be a problem in iconview. Perhaps the allowed
>>>space for pasting could be increased?
>>
>>Are you talking about DnD? Or do you mean that it's impossible to popup
>>the folder context menu and select paste files?
> 
> DnD: i am unable to perform the "drop" into a pane in "details view mode" when the
> pane is filled completely (i.e. there is no whitespace left at the bottom).
> 
> It may be a little counterintuitive but I would prefer to be able to drop "onto files (in the list pane)" - I'm
> not expecting any file manager to start overwriting the file I dropped onto with the
> content of what I just "dropped" onto it - so this may be the obvious solution. When I
> drop onto a directory the solution is obvious too. 
> 
> But what if the pane is filled up with directories and I want to paste the content into
> the "current" directory? Yet another dilemma....

This is tricky with the way the GtkTreeView works (from the users 
perspective). GtkTreeView provides the concepts of "drop after row" and 
"drop before row", but IIRC none of the popular Gtk2 file managers 
provide this ability for the details view. I'll look into this.

> Alternatively - it should be possible to drop files "onto" the shortcuts (when they are
> directories) - this would make single-window drag-n-drop procedures easier. This is
> a bit harder I bet to program since dropping directories would default to creating
> a new shortcut - but when I drop a file there onto one of the entries I can assume
> that I want it to be copied into whatever I dropped there (in any case - this is
> something to think about for a while).

I'm working on this, but it's not as trivial as it seems to be.

> And to ice the cake - when using that pathbar style navigation - it would be really
> nice to be able to drop files on the visible pathbar buttons - adding more logical
> locations to the available drop-locations. This should be straightforward to add
> I think, and unambiguous too.

Doable, indeed, still it may confuse people. I'll think about it again.

I'd be a good idea if you could file bugreports for these three 
features, so I don't forget about them. ;-)

> Auke

Benedikt
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