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Thunar 1.4 Roadmap (Xfce 4.10)

Improve User Directories Experience

Thunar 1.2 automatically creates user directories if they do not exist upon opening (e.g. via the Go menu). This sucks. What we want is:

  1. Enabling users to define user directories on their own (if we can).
  2. Not to show undefined user directories in the Go menu.
  3. Ask the user to create a user directory if it is defined but does not exist.

Completed: 0%
Assignee: Jannis
Difficulty: Easy

Integrate Remote Locations into the Side and Tree Pane

Right now, there is no way to “bookmark” remote locations. Thunar only allows directories as bookmarks. I've heard reports that re-using the existing bookmarks concept for was found to be inappropriate and confusing for end users. http://www.bomahy.nl/hylke/blog/clutter-in-nautilus-sidebar/ might be a good starting point for a better side pane. I'm conerned about high numbers of partitions in the side pane though. We probably want something that can be expanded/collapsed better, e.g. by grouping partitions per drive using a custom composite widget. This would also have user experience benefits as people would be able to mount/unmount entire drives at once and not just individual partitions.

Completed: 0%
Assignee: Jannis
Difficulty: Moderate

Improve Tumbler Integration

Right now Thunar only generates thumbnails (on-demand, which is good). It should also use the cache API provided by tumbler to e.g. delete a thumbnail when a file is removed or to copy/update the thumbnail when a file is copied. Stuff like that. That needs integration of ThunarThumbnailer in various jobs which is not too complicated. We also need a way to cancel requests when switching between folders. That is a bit more complicated as it implies requester-awareness in ThunarThumbnailer.

Completed: 0%
Assignee: Jannis
Difficulty: Moderate

Port More Thumbnailers to Tumbler

We need to port the thumbnailers from the thunar-thumbnailers package to tumbler.

Completed: 0%
Assignee:
Difficulty: Moderate