When navigating folders with many folders inside, it is a bit annoying that Thunar always resets the selected folder to the first in the list. It would be nice if going back or going up would remember the past selected folder or the parent folder from where the new view has been opened. Searching through larger folder would become much more user-friendly with this feature.
please dont forget about this for next release (i could not find a commit about this in git log) thanks for your hard work
Yeah, this is annoying. Tagging it with 'important-for-1.2' to remember it.
I've implemented a solution for a part of this feature request today (see the commit message at the bottom): auto-selecting subdirectories when walking back and forward in the history. Could you play with it a little to tell me whether this is what you had in mind? The other thing you requested was copying the history when creating a new window from an existing one, right? This is not implemented yet and it might be more tricky. But I'll leave this feature request open until this has been implemented as well. commit 4ffb5b3c2ac77c8ff44f6aeee191b37cf7cecfbe Author: Jannis Pohlmann <jannis@xfce.org> Date: Mon Oct 4 17:28:01 2010 +0200 Auto-select subdirectories when walking through the history (bug #5538). When entering a new directory, Thunar now checks if the next or previous directory in the history is an immediate child of the new directory. If one of these files is a child, it selects it automatically. This makes keyboard navigation much easier. I'm sure the behaviour can be confusing in some situations as well, but I hope it is an improvement. This partly fixes bug #5538 as well.
*** Bug 3184 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The final part (reusing history of origin window/tab) is fixed in git master and will be included in the next release. Closing.