[Thunar-dev] Minor things part $PREVIOUS++ | And on the nature of click-drag selection in list/detail view.

[Sebastian]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Sebastian wrote:
> 
>>>Guys, I think you are confusing the cursor with the selection. When
>>>deleting an item from the icon view, the cursor (if set) will be placed
>>>on the next item (or if there's no next item, on the prev item). The
>>>next item won't be selected, but it will have the keyboard focus. So
>>>keyboard navigation works perfectly here.
>>
>>I'm not sure I follow. When I delete an item in either list or or icon 
>>view and then press an arrow key, it starts from the beginning again. 
>>I'm not sure what you mean by cursor... You say 'if set'. How does one 
>>set the cursor? Would that be the dotted line around the files? If I 
>>click on the file with the mouse, no dotted line. If I use the arrow 
>>keys there is now a dotted line. But still when I delete something the 
>>dotted line disappears and pressing an arrow key starts from the 
>>beginning... is there something I'm not getting?
> 
> 
> The "cursor item" in the icon view (and also the tree/list view) is the
> item which has the keyboard focus. The dotted line around the item is
> not always shown (the exact conditions when this line should be shown
> were adopted from GtkTreeView, don't ask me...). There can be no "cursor
> item" at all, which means that the first arrow key press will start at
> the first item, which then becomes the "cursor item". Now for
> GtkTreeView, when the row for the "cursor item" is deleted from the
> model, the "cursor item" will be unset. This was also the case for
> ExoIconView until recently. What ExoIconView does now is to check if the
> "cursor item" is about to be deleted and if so, move the "cursor item"
> to the next row in the model. If no such row exists, it tries to move it
> to the previous. If no previous exists, the model is empty and so the
> "cursor item" is unset.

So how should one select the current cursor row?
Are you saying the arrow keys should activate selection for the current 
cursor item?

> 
> 
>>While I'm at it, another question. Will it ever be possible to use the 
>>mouse to click-drag select multiple files via list view? It seems right 
>>now like it isn't designed for this, but I wonder why... I suppose if 
>>designed for this, then to select a single file you'd need to  click 
>>over the actual text instead of anywhere along the row. But doesn't this 
>>also give the advantage of being able to right-click without selecting 
>>the file, and thus perform an action (like making a new folder) on the 
>>current directory instead of the selected file? Right now you can only 
>>access the current directory right-click menu if the directory has empty 
>>space to right-click in, which it does not if it is full of files. So 
>>then you must access these things by the file/edit/view menus or 
>>keyboard shortcuts. Not impossible to deal with, if this is how you want 
>>it, just wondering.
> 
> 
> You can click-drag select multiple files in the list view.
> 
> Is it possible that you're using really old versions of Thunar and libexo?

Well, I'm using gentoo portage overlay ebuilds that update svn, for both 
exo and thunar. I've been updating them daily and they both show 
revision 20451, which seems right. I'm also seeing new things in the 
program like the tree view, so I'm assuming I have the current 
versions... yet I am unable to drag-select in list view. Click-dragging 
results in an item being dragged, not multiple items being selected. 
Drag-selection works great in icon view.

So it shouldn't be like this? I wonder what the issue is... Same same 
setup and behavior over two computers. I also wiped the source and reran 
the process. Same stuff.

Sebastian