[Thunar-dev] Minor things part $PREVIOUS++

[Harold Aling]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Harold Aling wrote:
>   
>> I keep finding really minor stuff. Should I post these things on the 
>> mailing list, create bug reports or mail you (Benedikt) directly?
>>     
>
> Use the mailinglist.
>   
>> 1. Add a 'sync' context menu button for async mounted removable media
>>     
>
> There's unmount, no need for sync (well, you can create a plugin for it 
> if you want, but it's not something that belongs into the file manager 
> by default).
>   
>> 2. If Thunar is unable to get a file listing from a location within X 
>> seconds, spawn a notification (retry, cancel) dialog.
>>     
>
> Ehm, no. This doesn't make sense.
>   
When I format a SD card with my PDA, Linux is unable to read from it. 
When I open the 'corrupted' location in Thunar, it just wait and doesn't 
respond anymore... If there would be some sort of timeout, I could 
'save' my Thunar session instead of killing it.
>> 3. When copying/moving files to an other location, check if the 
>> destination has enough free space to hold that files.
>>     
>
> It does that already while copying.
>   
How come I get the following error then?
>> 4. Always truncate really large filenames in dialogs (the 'Failed to 
>> write data to "[path/filename]": No space left on device' dialog can be 
>> very wide)
>>     
>
> Yeah, I need to find a better way to display such errors.
>   
-H-
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