ANNOUNCE: thunar 1.5.0 released

[Harald Judt]

Am 14.10.2012 15:04, schrieb Nick Schermer:
> thunar 1.5.0 is now available for download from
>
>    http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/1.5/Thunar-1.5.0.tar.bz2
>    http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/1.5/Thunar-1.5.0.tar.bz2.md5
>    http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/1.5/Thunar-1.5.0.tar.bz2.sha1
>
>    SHA1 checksum: 41b06652f9a6bdca601c8b96965b1be712d075f6
>     MD5 checksum: b219735c643d9b16c7ed913c40d36785
>
>
> What is thunar?
> ===============
>
> Thunar is a new modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop  Environment.
> It has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its
> user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any
> confusing or useless options. Thunar is fast and responsive with a good
> start up time and directory load time. Thunar is accessible using
> Assistive Technologies and is fully standards  compliant.
>
> Website:
>    http://thunar.xfce.org/
>
>
> Release notes for 1.5.0
> =======================
> [Please note that this is a development release.]
>
> First development release of Thunar 1.6. A lot of bugs have been
> resolved in this release including some long wanted features like file
> properties for multiple files selections, support for remote mounts and
> bookmarks, a new shiny shortcuts sidepane and improved transfer dialog.
>
> Other interesting highlights are:
>
> - Add support for multiple selections in file preferences dialog.
> - Depend on Gtk 2.24 and Glib 2.30.
> - Implement selection inversion.
> - Improve refresh feedback when using dnd between 2 windows.
> - Resize rename dialog based on filename length (bug #7684).
> - Force bulk renamer when Shift is pressed (bug #7684).
> - Add a sentence case rename mode to sbr.
> - Regenerate thumbnails on file changes (bug #8473).
> - Hide recommended applications that are not visible (bug #9169).
> - Sort recommended applications (bug #8927).
> - Use system-file-manager icon-name in desktop file (bug #9128).
> - Check mime type in desktop files in the sendto menu (bug #7392).
> - Improvement in the file progress dialog.
> - Show full template filename in menu (bug #6140).
> - Store metadata (emblems) in GVFS's daemon.
> - Use Path from desktop file as CWD (bug #5760).
> - Add working directory entry to apr (bug #5760).
> - Add hidden option to show full path in window title (bug #6412).
> - Unset DBUS variables once registered (bug #8800).
> - Only collect image data if the mime-type is image/* (bug #2913).
> - Don't copy templates but create them (bug #8312).
> - Add menu item to hide the menu bar.
> - Improve statusbar selection text (bug #8989).
> - Don't allow starting multiple daemons (bug #3814).
> - Make massing plugin warnings non-fatal (bug #2604).
> - Show transfer rate in transfer dialog (bug #8250).
> - Check free space before copying (bug #5658).
> - Port settings to xfconf.
> - Handle null content-types when sorting (bug #8465).
> - Scroll to first file with pattern select.
> - Add secure desktop file launching (bug #5012).
> - Use g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename for sorting (bug #7110).
> - Only deep-count on the same filesystem.
> - Don't force scrolling to the window edge.
> - Translation updates: Amharic, Arabic, Asturian, Belarusian,
>    Bengali, Catalan (Valencian), Czech, Danish, German, Dzongkha, Greek,
>    English (United Kingdom), Esperanto, Spanish (Castilian), Estonian,
>    Basque, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian,
>    Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean,
>    Kurdish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian Bokmal, Dutch
>    (Flemish), Norwegian Nynorsk, Panjabi (Punjabi), Polish, Portuguese,
>    Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Sinhala, Slovak, Albanian,
>    Serbian, Swedish, Telugu, Turkish, Uyghur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Urdu
>    (Pakistan), Vietnamese, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan).

Nice improvements, excellent work! I like the new shortcut pane, it 
looks much better organized. Thunar also seems to be snappier now and 
doesn't exhibit weird thumbnail update bugs. And I like the spinner 
animation and the new multiple file properties!

Now I don't have much time going into details about the great new stuff, 
but I did some tests for some features and here are some bugs and 
inconveniences I noticed:

* Thunar does not remember custom commands I entered in the
   "Open With" dialog, even if I set it as default. A file is
   created in ~/.local/share/applications with a name like
   userapp-appname-MRTRLW.desktop every time I enter a custom
   file. This is a very inconvenient regression.

* Additionally, it would be fine if the "Use as default" option would
   be disabled by default. The cases I want to set the application as
   default are much rarer than those where I simply want to open it with
   another application one time.

* Thunar is listed four times as "File manager" and once
   as "File manager Thunar" in the "Open With" dialog.

* The "Open With" dialog is very small and cannot be resized, and
   there are usually a lot of applications to scroll through.
   It would be nice to have it at least resizable, if it's not possible
   to make it bigger by default.

* Network bookmarks in the sidepane are not very comfortable to use:
   1) Connect to a remote server via sftp:
      sftp://user@server/some/dir
      A bookmark will appear below "NETWORK", along with an eject button.
   2) Add a bookmark for the remote dir.
      The bookmark will appear below "NETWORK".
   3) Disconnect the resource using the bookmark with the eject button
      created in step 1).
   4) Click on the bookmark created in step 2).
      You will be asked for a password which you can confirm, but then
      nothing happens. You have to click on the bookmark again to show
      the resource. This last step should not be necessary.

* Another bug concerning remote resources:
   1) Connect to a remote server via sftp:
      sftp://user@server/some/dir
      A bookmark will appear below "NETWORK", along with an eject button.
   2) Copy the sftp path from the location bar to the clipboard.
   3) Disconnect the resource using the eject button.
   4) Paste the bookmark into the location bar and hit enter.
      What worked before does not work anymore: There will be no
      reaction, and the connection will not be re-established. You have
      to close and reopen the thunar window to get it working again.

* It would be great if "NETWORK" could be hidden too. Not all people
   need it.

* When connecting to SFTP servers via gvfs, some files with special
   characters in their names are presented with "(invalid encoding)",
   and trying to access them sometimes crashes thunar when in --demon
   mode. While I believe this may be a problem with gvfs, it
   shouldn't crash thunar. I've filed bug
   https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9376
   for this with a backtrace included.

* SFTP transfers with gvfs are slow as hell. If I use a sftp client
   like filezilla, it will copy files 4x faster than gvfs. This is
   a problem with gvfs, there have been bug reports regarding this
   for nautilus etc. Not a thunar problem I suppose, but I wanted
   to mention it.

* Thunar crashed sometimes when deleting files. I'm not sure this
   is not caused by some of my custom patches, so I have to test it
   again using the vanilla version. Unfortunately, it seems not to
   be reproducible reliably, but I'll try to get a backtrace for
   this too if it's present in vanilla. Backtraces I send are
   for vanilla of course, if not stated otherwise.

* Another bug, which I cannot reproduce reliably:
   Sometimes when trying to disconnect a sftp resource, the
   following error message will occur:
   DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method 
"QueryInfo" with signature "aysus" on interface "org.gtk.vfs.Mount" 
doesn't exist.

Best regards,
Harald

-- 
`Experience is the best teacher.'