thunar: bind sendto action to shortcut key?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 14:42 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 11:52 +0000, Alexander Schwinn wrote:
> > Not beeing customizable for sure is not a problem of thunar.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> at least it's not a problem to avoid installing gvfs, since it's an
> optional dependency for Thunar. Upstream of several other GTK file
> managers, for example Nautilus, Nemo and Caja make it a hard dependency
> for no good reason and packagers usually follow upstream, so when using
> a package of a major distro, a workaround is required, if installing
> gvfs is unwanted by the user.
> 
> However, a customisable app isn't necessarily straight forward to
> customize. For example, downgrading Thunar to an outdated release or
> upgrading Thunar to the current master branch and hoping that it will
> not change in the future again, is not straight forward.
> 
> Btw. the master branch of Thunar does not apply to the latest official
> release from upstream of grep, see below, but by default it requires to
> use other latest versions of dependencies, that are even not supported
> by the official repositories of a rolling release major distro, such as
> Arch Linux, let alone release model Linux distros or BSD, see below.
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux thunar]$ ./autogen.sh
> egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
> egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
> [snip]
> checking for exo-2 >= 4.17.0... found, but 4.16.4
> *** The required package exo-2 was found on your system,
> *** but the installed version (4.16.4) is too old.
> *** Please upgrade exo-2 to atleast version 4.17.0, or adjust
> *** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed
> *** the new version of the package in a nonstandard prefix so
> *** pkg-config is able to find it.
> 

My apologies, one of the issues is not the fault of Thunar upstream.

[rocketmouse at archlinux thunar]$ grep egrep /usr/bin/xdt-autogen -A3
  if type egrep >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    EGREP=egrep
  else
    EGREP="grep -E"
  fi