In Nautilus and Apple's Finder file browser, it is possible to select multiple files and folders, right-click on one of them, and click on "New folder with selection" or something along those lines; you can select multiple items and have the file browser put them in a newly created folder. I think this feature would be very useful in Thunar. I think it's really the only feature that Thunar is really missing.
Created attachment 7570 UCA Settings to move files into a new Folder Thanks for reporting this ! .. sadly there are alot of nice features waiting to get implemented and barely enough maintainers to do the every-day-work :X So as always, patches are welcome ! .. meanwhile you may want to add a UCA (user custom action) which almost does the job. The name of the new folder is fixed .. but besides that it work nicely !
(In reply to alexxcons from comment #1) > Created attachment 7570 > UCA Settings to move files into a new Folder > > Thanks for reporting this ! > > .. sadly there are alot of nice features waiting to get implemented and > barely enough maintainers to do the every-day-work :X > > So as always, patches are welcome ! > > .. meanwhile you may want to add a UCA (user custom action) which almost > does the job. The name of the new folder is fixed .. but besides that it > work nicely ! I hope this feature will be implemented in a future release. But in the meantime, thank you very much for the workaround! At least there is an easy way for me to get this functionality.
If you like, you could even script a full solution .. e.g. with the usage of zenity
(In reply to alexxcons from comment #3) > If you like, you could even script a full solution .. e.g. with the usage of > zenity I don't know if I'd do that, but if I were do to anything else about this problem - aside from implementing the workaround, I'd dive into the code, add the feature myself and then send in the patch. That way, others will easily benefit from this patch and I won't have to do that extra setup every time I set up a new Linux box.
A patch would be real great ! Here the full solution with zenity: ( zenity need to be installed if not available yet ) NEW_FOLDER=$(/usr/bin/zenity --entry); mkdir $NEW_FOLDER; mv %F $NEW_FOLDER
.. ok, this time with all the bells and whistles: NEW_FOLDER=$(/usr/bin/zenity --entry --title "Move into new folder" --text "Please enter a name for the new folder"); mkdir $NEW_FOLDER; mv %F $NEW_FOLDER
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