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?
Created attachment 902 Make the Properties Dialog Track the Selection Patch to make properties dialog track selection.
Created attachment 930 Updated to build properly It seems that I messed up the previous patch. Updated version that actually works properly attached.
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.
This is bad from a usability point of view.