Right now the context menu and "File" menu just says "Open" when you select a file. There's absolutely no information contained in this action, which action will be used to open the file. And this is pretty annoying. The action should provide some information about itself. Nautilus does a good job here (http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/mime/). It does indeed look ugly, but it's way more usable.
*** Bug 1429 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Expected function: http://hdr.unk.fi/~drac/thunar1.png Instead of: http://hdr.unk.fi/~drac/thunar2.png
Committed with revision 19750. 2006-02-05 Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org> * thunar/thunar-launcher.{c,h}, thunar/thunar-chooser-dialog.{c,h}, thunar/thunar-launcher-ui.xml, thunar/Makefile.am, thunar/thunar-standard-view-ui.xml, thunar/thunar-standard-view.c, thunar/thunar-window-ui.xml, thunar/thunar-window.c: Replace the previous ThunarLauncher class with a more advanced one, which has access to the GtkUIManager. The new implementation also displays which application will be used to open files, based on Jonathan Blandfords suggestion for Nautilus. Bug #1428.
BTW: The suggested way to add "Enqueue in XYZ" and similar actions to the file manager (actually limited to Thunar right now, since Nautilus and Konqueror do not fully implement the desktop spec here) is to use so called "desktop actions". These actions are added to the .desktop of the application providing the action. For example, for xfmedia, there's the basic xfmedia.desktop: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Xfmedia Exec=xfmedia %F Icon=xfmedia ... Now, in order to add an "Enqueue" actions to the file, you add a key "Actions" to the [Desktop Entry] group Actions=Enqueue; and add a new group [Desktop Entry Enqueue] to the end of the file [Desktop Action Enqueue] Exec=xfmedia-remote -a %f Name=Enqueue in Xfmedia and voila, Thunar will provide you with an "Enqueue in Xfmedia" action in the file context menu, without any work-arounds using additional .desktop files.
The result will look like this: http://foo-projects.org/~benny/tmp/desktop-actions.png
Yeah, that did it! It's nice now. Thanks. :)