To reproduce: 1.) Open Thunar. 2.) Select the "View" menu from the menu bar. 3.) Select "View as Detailed List". 4.) Go to a folder with at least one file. 5.) Unselect all files by clicking into the white area after the file list. 6.) Move the mouse over one of the files and click the left mouse button and keep it pressed and try to drag the file. What happens. - A selection box is activated but the file is not moved. What should happen. - The file should start moving into the direction where the mouse is moved. The drag and drop works otherwise but to get it working you have to first select the file with clicking on it. Then when the file is selected you can do the drag and drop, but this means clicking twice unnecessarily. Why I consider this a bug?: - Because the extra selection is not needed in any other file browser I ever met in my live. - Because it works as expected in all other listing modes like "View as Icons" without needing the extra selection. - Because it does not work as expected. Tchnical details: ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: thunar 1.6.3-1ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-45.74-generic 3.13.11-ckt13 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-45-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Wed Feb 25 22:05:00 2015 SourcePackage: thunar UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I have also submitted this bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunar/+bug/1425700
I belive that this bug is related to https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8852 The selection is also something that only works differently in the "Detailed List View" according to my tests. I think that all views should behave the same if possible.
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I have pushed the change and documented it on the wiki (still work-in-progress): http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/working-with-files-and-folders This should improve things a bit, though unfortunately fixing every aspect and making the view behave exactly as the other views is not a trivial task. This fix will be included in the next thunar release 1.6.7. Should too many people complain about the changed behaviour, I will revert it, and a proper, more thorough patch will need to be written. Maybe this will (have to) be completely rewritten with the gtk3 port anyway, who knows... If something in the duplicates has not been fixed, please feel free to reopen the duplicates, but please do not report new issues in this bug. Pushed to master: http://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/commit/?id=bb9fe8ad3e2202be52fa5c987cb1a7744d20a0a6