Before doing a release or merging a substantial patch, it might make sense to run some test cases to compare the current thunar behavior/performance with the latest release. That is, in order to prevent regressions.

For all tests, do the following:

• Enable folder specific setting
• Enable intermediate files on copy
• Enable thumbnailing (Always)

• Run all below testcases with “valgrind thunar/thunar”
• check used ram of thunar in taskmanager after each test and compare with previous thunar version
  • Ram at least should not increase dramatically
• Build thunar with

  ./autogen.sh --enable-debug=full

• Check if any leakage is reported during testing (report done when closing thunar)
• See the last post of this issue for known leaks. Make sure no new leaks were added.

• Preparation for testing
  • Open a folder in list view + shortcuts pane
  • Open the same folder in icon view + tree pane
  • Open a terminal in that folder

• File IO
  • File Creation: for i in {1..20000}; do touch “$i”; done
  • STRG+A on both views to select them all
  • File Deletion: for i in {1..20000}; do rm “$i”; done

• Trashing1
  • Empty trash (to get a clean start)
  • for i in {1..500}; do touch “$i”; done
  • Select and copy them all (STRG+A + STRG+C + STRG+V)
  • STRG+A + right click –> trash
  • Press Undo
  • Press Redo
  • Open trash folder with both windows
  • Empty trash

• Trashing2
  • This one currently freezes thunar for ~10sec (issue #141)
    • mkdir test && cd test
    • for i in {1..10000}; do touch “$i”; done
    • gio trash *

• File Monitoring
  • Each terminal command should update the thunar views accordingly
  • Open a folder in list view on some local folder + shortcuts pane
  • Open the same folder in icon view + tree pane
  • Open a terminal in that folder and create a some files
    • mkdir folder1
    • mkdir folder2
    • mkdir .hidden
  • Open all files as well in the bulk renamer
  • check G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_MOVED_OUT:
    • mv folder1 ..
  • check G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_MOVED_IN:
    • mv ../folder1 .
  • check G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_RENAMED
    • Hidden files - Do the following first with show-hidden enabled on both windows, and then with having it disabled
      • mv .hidden hidden
      • mv hidden .hidden
    • mkdir a && mv a a.bin && rm -rf a.bin && mkdir a && mv a a.bin
      • a.bin should be visible and a should be gone
    • Save file via mousepad (creates some temp files and then replaces the original one via rename/move)
    • Create and enter some folder foo. Press back and then rename that folder via F2.
  • G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_CHANGED
    • Sort files by date in both views
    • touch folder1 should bring file1 to top
    • touch folder2 should bring file2 to top
    • Check if the same works if files are saved via mousepad
  • G_FILE_MONITOR_EVENT_DELETED
    • rm -rf .hidden (try that with and without having hidden files enabled in both views)
    • for i in {1..1000}; do mkdir test; rm -rf test; done (no ghost files should remain)
• On a gvfs mount
  • Open some folder at sftp://user@localhost
  • Create, rename, delete a file via thunar (The changes have to be visible in thunar)
  • Open the same folder via local path. A file created there should show after F5