Created attachment 6699 screenshot Click to highlight a folder in the (left) side pane tree. Click to highlight a file/folder in the (right) main pane. Both highlights appear identical. If you press delete, which folder will disappear? Too often this has led to me deleting main tree folders on the left rather than the single files I have selected within them on the right. This is made more vexing since one can't undo deletions (https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2527) Technically there IS a difference: if you are focused on the side pane, the red highlight is bordered by a light 1px dotted line effect, but this is near-invisible. HOWEVER, this does at least offer some hope that the focus for the side pane and the main pane could be more distinct than they are now. This affects 4 of the 5 default styles - not greybird. Should I post this under a style bug section? Thanks
Edit: notwithstanding it's inevitably possible to hunt around until one finds the underlying code which governs the current (e.g. for Numix) red-with-dots setting for selected left pane folder, and thus tweak it to something distinguishable from the right pane selection, I feel that users being unable to distinguish the selection for 4/5 of the default themes is a significant enough user experience bug that it merits a review, more than just me sorting it out for my machines. Not because I'm lazy, more that I feel like every smoothed over UI problem is one fewer reason people have to stay with M$/Apple
Interestingly, Thunar treats these two deletions differently. If I delete a file in the right panel, it asks me, then does permanent deletion. If I delete a file from the left panel, it moves it into .local/share/Trash without asking. The behaviour from the right panel is my desired behaviour.
Thanks for reporting ! @ Meike Tadsen Different behaviour of three and reight-side was fixed recently: https://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/commit/?id=693b36ca57d6642d9a45bc74c8066c3d89aab7fc I'll close this one a duplicate .. I guess we should either highlight items on the left or on the right, to show where the focus currently lies, not both at the same time. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14839 ***