[Thunar-dev] Rubberbanding behavior

[Benedikt Meurer]

Bjoern Martensen wrote:
>>>>>I think this patch to libexo improves the rubberbanding in Thunar.  I
>>>>>have always found the current behavior less than ideal for a file
>>>>>manager.  With this patch, the length of a filename does not make any
>>>>>difference as to whether or not that item is "inside" the rubberband
>>>>>selector.
>>>>
>>>>Hm that looks kinda odd to me. But that may be because I'm used to the
>>>>other icon view behavior. IIRC nearly every file manager works this way
>>>>in icon view mode.
>>>>
>>>
>>>What if this change only applied to compact list view?  (See revised patch)
>>
>>Makes sense. Committed, thanks.
> 
> I'm sorry, but I don't like the new behaviour at all.
> I think it makes much more sense that only items that are actually
> _inside_ the rubber band are selecteted.

Well, I have no strong opinion here. Maybe you can discuss this and
whatever comes out of the discussion will be applied. ;-)

But not an additional option.

> Björn

Benedikt