[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 15210] New: Proposed Enhancement to Open a Directory in Thunar when Started from the Panel

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15210

            Bug ID: 15210
           Summary: Proposed Enhancement to Open a Directory in Thunar
                    when Started from the Panel
    Classification: Xfce Core
           Product: Thunar
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: PC (x86_64)
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: General
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: Adalbert.Hanssen at gmx.de
                CC: benny at xfce.org, hjudt at xfce.org
  Target Milestone: 1.8.5

This proposal pertains to Thunar 1.6.11 run under Xubuntu 16.0.6 LTS, currently
under a linux kernel 4.4.0-143-generic x86_64.

After starting an instance of Thunar by clicking on its starter on the panel, a
drop down menu opens to let you select where Thunar shall start its operations.
(Looking at the various *.desktop files in ~/.config/xfce4 and lower, I guess
the relevant command is exo-open --launch FileManager %u).

After moving the cursor over one of the directories from the drop-down list,
another selection pops out to the right or to the left to the one selected by
mouse-over. It shows the other directories stacked into the one with
mouse-over. They are decorated by a small triangle to indicate that another
mouse operation on the popped out submenu is expected. In Addition the two
choices  “Ordner öffnen” (in English probably “open directory”) and “In
Terminal öffnen” (in English probably “open a terminal here”) are shown on top
of the list of contained other directories. These two lines are not decorated
with a small triangle. Clicking on them initiates the indicated action.

One can either move the mouse to select one of the other directories stacked
into the one before or click one of the two top choices. 

The basic set up here is perfectly ok. However, I propose to add another choice
of a left double click instead of moving to the next selection level (which is
located either to the right or to the left, depending on space on the screen)
which should act like “open directory”. This would enable to select a directory
more quickly than currently.

Currently a left click on a directory in the drop down list just lets the
submenu for the one with mouse over vanish. But that’s no reasonable thing,
because the only choices you have in this situation is to 
* either move the mouse up or down in order to select another directory
* or make another click to have the selection pop out again.

In addition I would suggest to allow a right click on the directory in the drop
down list to invoke the context menu of the currently selected directory. That
would be equivalent to selecting opening Thunar in this directory, move up one
step in the directory tree and invoke the context menu for the previously
selected directory.

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