[Thunar-dev] Invert selection action in Thunar

[Stefan Schwarzburg]

2007/10/31, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de>:
>
> Fernando Maróstica wrote:
> > Hello thunar hackers!
>
> Hello Fernando,
>
> > I'm a new Thunar user.
> > First of all I must say that Thunar is a great file manager !!
> >
> > The invert-selection is a feature request in thunar to have an option to
> > invert the current selection. That is, if we have 25 items in a folder,
> > and we select any 10 random items, on clicking Invert Selection, the
> > other 15 items will be selected, and the original 10 items will be
> > de-selected.
> >
> > Please, take a look at:
> > http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/thunar-dev/2005-March/000493.html
> >
> > Use Case:
> >
> > When I'm backing up data from a certain directory, I select some files
> > that would fit on a CD. After burning these files, I'd like to be able
> > to select the remaining ones easily, so I can put them on another disc.
> > Right now I have to unselect the files, and then manually choose the
> > ones I haven't burned carefully. Or, insert the burnt disc and compare
> > visually myself to only choose the files which haven't been burnt. This
> > is tedious and not very confortable when you're doing the same operation
> > repeatedly or when the number of files is large.
> >
> > This email contain my first patch to contribute with Thunar File Manager
> > Revolution :-)
> >
> > I hope that is useful.
>
> Your patch leaks the memory returned from g_strdup_printf() when
> constructing the tree path. BTW: You don't need to create a string for
> the path first (see GtkTreePath documentation).
>
> Other than that, the patch looks good. Dunno how useful the "Invert
> Selection" feature is; atleast I've never seen a feature request for
> this besides the one from botsie. Maybe others can comment on this?


My Comment on this:
Actually, I have never seen something like this in a filemanager.
But I can imagine a lot of cases, where this could be really useful. So
maybe if it is there, then I would use it often.
But since I was never able to use this feature, I can not tell for sure.


> Cheers.
> > Fernando Maróstica.
>
> Benedikt
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