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

[Benedikt Meurer]

Daniel Ostrow 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.

Aye, thanks.

Well, I wasn't aware of this so far. But as Brian said, it does indeed
make sense, as you seldomly select multiple files just to unselect most
of them right away. Instead one usually selects multiple files to DnD
them or delete them or whatever. Since we want to optimize for the
common case, I'll keep the current behaviour.

Benedikt