In Thunar, you can bind a shortcut key to creating a new directory, but you cannot for creating a new empty file. I create empty files a lot, and it would be nice to be able to set a shortcut to this. For example: Ctrl+Alt+N creates a new file and lets you rename it right away, just like when normally creating an empty file.
*** Bug 8335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is only supported for custom actions. You can create a custom action that does this and assign a shortcut to it.