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Feature request: Stealing ROX-Filer's double-click-to-resize feature
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Severity:
enhancement

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Description Denis Fern 2008-11-30 11:55:02 CET
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The ROX Filer [1] has a very useful feature: you can double-click on any empty space of the window (that is, on the panel that holds the file icons but not on an icon itself) and the filer window will resize to show as much files as possible. This means both increasing (for windows with more files than the actual size will show) and decreasing (for windows with few files and lots of empty space) size.

It is useful because it saves screen real estate, and because it many occasions it will allow one to see most of the files on a folder with a simple action.

In Thunar it could be replicated the same way or through another quick-to-access mechanism (a hotkey, for example).

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-10-30 09:01:05 CET
IMHO this is especially useful for spatial file-managers, but not for navigational fm like thunar.
Comment 2 Harald Judt editbugs 2015-04-17 16:02:17 CEST
Closing won't fix.

Bug #4663

Reported by:
Denis Fern
Reported on: 2008-11-30
Last modified on: 2015-04-17

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
2 users

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