To make Thunar more user friendly and to satisfy a large user group (half maybe?), optional single click support is needed. This option could be located in file manager preferences as a tick box (check box). Single click support would be consistent with the Rox file manager, which most of Xfce users were using before Thunar was introduced. Also Xfce settings manager kind of uses single click. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 447 First patch for single-click in the detailed list view
Committed with revision 20009. 2006-02-24 Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org> * thunar/thunar-preferences.c, docs/README.thunarrc: Add new preference MiscSingleClick, which controls whether single click navigation should be used. * thunar/thunar-preferences-dialog.c(thunar_preferences_dialog_init): Add single/double-click options to the preferences dialog. * thunar/thunar-pango-extensions.{c,h}: Add new helper function thunar_pango_attr_list_underline_single(), which returns a Pango attribute list for single-underlined text rendering. * thunar/thunar-text-renderer.c: Add "follow-prelit" property, which controls whether the text renderer should highlight text using the single underline attribute when a row/item is highlighted. * thunar/thunar-details-view.c, thunar/thunar-icon-view.c, thunar/thunar-shortcuts-view.c, thunar/thunar-standard-view.c: Add support for single click navigation to the details and icon views, and also to the shortcuts view. Bug #1396.