User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060601 BonEcho/2.0b2 (Ubuntu-edgy) Build Identifier: Files cannot be selected in single click mode after opening folder from side pane Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Thunar in single click mode 2. Open any folder from side pane shortcuts view or tree view 3. Hover on any file in opened folder with mouse pointer, file does not get selected 4. Selecting files by hovering them works after right window is clicked active Happens with every view types (detailed, compact, icon). Tested with Thunar 0.4.1svn-r23151 (from Ubuntu Edgy repository)
Yes, this is correct. Files will only be selected if the view has focus to be consistent with other single-click file managers like windows explorer.
What we could do however, move the focus to the view after selecting from the side pane, tho that will be a little tricky.
(In reply to comment #2) > What we could do however, move the focus to the view after selecting from the > side pane, tho that will be a little tricky. > That sounds quite good, hopefully its not too difficult or hacky solution. This seems like a bug atleast to me, no matter how other file managers do it (though not that critical)
Fixed with revision 23614. 2006-11-03 Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org> * thunar/thunar-window.c(thunar_window_set_current_directory): Place focus on the main view after changing the currently displayed folder. Bug #2367.