[Thunar-dev] Something wrong with single click on multi-selected files?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 3/8/2006 5:36 PM, Daniel Ostrow wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 02:20 +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>> Li Jason wrote:
>>> Hi, I recently found that thunar has been updated to a new svn version.
>>> So I install it immediately, Thunar 0.2.3svn-r20279.
>>> I find it works well, and add the create document function by default
>>> and the gamin support, amazing actually.
>>>
>>> However, I find a little bug, or not.
>>> When I use the Ctrl with multi-click on files, I select some files
>>> simultaneously, but if I click any one of the selected files, the thunar
>>> could not work properly. In my point  of view, the thunar should show
>>> only one file selected in that situation, but it did not show that.
>>> All the selected files still remain selected status. I don't know how to
>>> solve it, could anyone tell me why or the solution to make it
>>> work well?
>> I'm sorry, but I don't understand the problem. Can you please try to
>> explain in detail?
> 
> 
>>From what I can piece together (I just tried it so I'm pretty sure this
> is what he is getting at):
> 
> 1). Hold Control and select a few files and/or folders in thunar.
> 2). Release the Control key.
> 3). Single click one of the selected files.
> 
> Intuitively this should deselect the other files leaving only the last
> file clicked in step 3 selected, however it leaves all the files
> selected still.

Actually, I noticed this recently when I was trying to match Thunar's
behavior in xfdesktop's icon view.  I kinda like it this way.  It makes
DnD of multiple files *much* easier[1].  Deselecting all other files
unfortunately takes an extra mouse click (click on empty space, then
click on the file you want), but I feel like making the DnD easier
trumps that.

[1] Though I suppose you could get the same effect by triggering the
selection action on button release instead of press.  That might be a
bit weird and inconsistent though.

	-brian

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