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

[Sebastian]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Sebastian wrote:
> 
>>So how should one select the current cursor row?
>>Are you saying the arrow keys should activate selection for the current 
>>cursor item?
> 
> 
> File "03" is selected and has cursor:
> http://www.foo-projects.org/~benny/tmp/exo-icon-view-cursor-demo0.png
> 
> Now delete "03", selection is empty, cursor is on "04" (next item):
> http://www.foo-projects.org/~benny/tmp/exo-icon-view-cursor-demo1.png
> 
> You can now select "04" using Shift+Space, move to the next, prev item,
> item above or below, get yourself a beer or sudo rm -rf /, etc. Or to
> sum it up, there's nothing special here. The only difference (what was
> actually changed 5 days ago for ExoIconView) is that the cursor item
> pointer isn't reset to NULL when the cursor item is deleted from the
> model, but it's set to the next item (i.e. in the example above, it was
> on "03", which was deleted from the model, and moved to "04"), which is
> IMHO better than resetting to NULL because you don't have to scroll
> again. Other than that it behaves exactly like GtkTreeView (may be a
> good idea to file a feature request to adjust GtkTreeView behaviour
> accordingly).
> 

Ok, I'm getting this same behavior, in icon view. Though I'm not sure 
about Shift+Space; that is bringing up the command window for me.
Selected:
http://www.escapen.org/exo-icon-view-cursor-demo0.png
After Delete:
http://www.escapen.org/exo-icon-view-cursor-demo1.png
Press right arrow key:
http://www.escapen.org/exo-icon-view-cursor-demo2.png
Cool. Sounds like what Harold was asking for... I did try it first 
before responding, and it didn't seem to at the time. Maybe I did have 
the wrong libexo or was doing something wrong. huh.

I've been using the list view though, and here it does not work like 
this, at least for me.
Selected:
http://www.escapen.org/exo-list-view-cursor-demo0.png
After Delete:
http://www.escapen.org/exo-list-view-cursor-demo1.png
Press down arrow key:
http://www.escapen.org/exo-list-view-cursor-demo2.png
I can't quite tell, did you say this is supposed to work in list view as 
well?


> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Ah! I think I know what you mean now (your terminology is kinda
> different). Do you mean rubberband selection? If so, that's scheduled
> for Gtk 2.10, not sure, GNOME Bugzilla will tell you.
> 

Yeah, sorry for my makeshift terminology. It looks like rubbanband 
selection is what I mean. Awesome that it's going to be here soon, can't 
wait!
( http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80127 ) <-- guess that's it.

Thanks for all the hard work and help... this list is getting pretty 
busy lately and I'm amazed at how well you keep up and how fast things 
are getting added. Great work!

 >>Sebastian

 >Benedikt

Sebastian