User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.10 Build Identifier: Thunar 1.4.0 Rox filer has a very useful feature: any new files and the folders that contain them are highlighted (names in bold font). I hope you will consider adding this feature to a future release of Thunar. Reproducible: Always If there is already a way of doing this that I have missed, I'd appreciate an explanation of how to implement, suitable for beginners, perhaps in FAQs. Thanks.
You can use details view in thunar, sorting by date modified.