Thunar / libexo: detailed view

[Stephan Arts]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Christian Dywan <christian at twotoasts.de> wrote:
> Am Sun, 2 Mar 2008 13:54:09 -0500
>  schrieb Ori Bernstein <ori at eigenstate.org>:
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>
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>  > On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 13:47:15 +0100, "Peter de Ridder" <peter at xfce.org>
>  > said:
>  >
>  > You forgot one idea =)
>  >
>  > > Different ideas:
>  > > 1. Specify a column as drag column, the other columns are used for
>  > > rubber band
>  > > 2. The part of a column that has the actual text rendered  is the
>  > > drag part of the row the empty parts is for rubber banding
>  > > 3. Combination of both 1 and 2, only the rendered part of the drag
>  > > column is for dragging
>  > > 4. Leave it as it is and don't bother ;)
>  > 5. Remove rubber band selection entirely, and use shift-click and
>  >    ctrl-click like any other tree view
>  >
>  > > Pros / Cons:
>  > > 1. If only one column is shown or all columns which are shown are
>  > > used for dragging, we need to fall back to the current behavior or
>  > > rubber banding isn't possible, this gives inconsistency.
>  > > 2. With text of different lengths and not filling the column it is
>  > > easy to click at the wrong location.
>  > > 3. Combination of 1 and 2.
>  > > 4. Lack of improvement.
>  > 5. Pro: - Consistent with other tree views
>  >         - Easy to implement
>  >         - Simple, predictable behavior
>  >    Con: - No easy mouse-only way to select multiple files
>  >
>  > Personally, I lean towards either 4 or 5 myself.
>
>  While I do think this functionality belongs entirely into gtk+ as
>  opposed to any application or library, leaving this out would be a very
>  unpleasant step backwards in my opinion.
>
>  I can live with 4 in the worst case, but if you remove it entirely I
>  will cry badly and you don't want that, do you? ;)

Well, concidering the fact you live in Germany... I doubt he'll hear
you loud enough to be bothered by that ^_~.

-
Stephan