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Make Properties Dialog Track Selection
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Severity:
enhancement

Comments

Description Ori Bernstein 2006-12-15 18:15:30 CET
Thunar currently creates a new properties dialog when selecting "properties" from a file menu. This patch turns the dialog into a singleton, and furthermore, makes it track the selection.

This greatly improves workflow when using the properties dialog to rename, change permissions on, or otherwise view the properties of a number of files, since one can simply select the next file and edit the properties, without repeatedly opening and closing the dialog.

Slight concern about the patch: I'm not sure that I'm updating the contents dialog in the right place. Is "thunar_standard_view_selection_changed" correct?
Is it possible that a well-behaved subclass overrides this and the contents of the properties dialog is left unchanged?
Comment 1 Ori Bernstein 2006-12-15 18:16:39 CET
Created attachment 902 
Make the Properties Dialog Track the Selection

Patch to make properties dialog track selection.
Comment 2 Ori Bernstein 2007-01-07 18:16:49 CET
Created attachment 930 
Updated to build properly

It seems that I messed up the previous patch. Updated version that actually works properly attached.
Comment 3 Matt Stickney 2010-01-02 18:20:47 CET
I know this is an old bug to dig up, but it seems like this feature would be really annoying when trying to compare properties of different files, especially if they were distantly spaced in a directory listing. Unfortunately, being able to open a second properties dialog (e.g. by preventing right-click actions from changing the dialog's target) means you lose the ability to do tracking at all. Just my two cents.
Comment 4 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-09-19 08:53:06 CEST
This is bad from a usability point of view.

Bug #2666

Reported by:
Ori Bernstein
Reported on: 2006-12-15
Last modified on: 2012-09-19

People

Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
2 users

Version

Version:
0.5.1svn

Attachments

Make the Properties Dialog Track the Selection (9.74 KB, text/x-patch)
2006-12-15 18:16 CET , Ori Bernstein
no flags
Updated to build properly (9.83 KB, patch)
2007-01-07 18:16 CET , Ori Bernstein
no flags

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