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copying the history when creating a new window
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RESOLVED: FIXED
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enhancement

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Description Daniel Mader 2009-07-08 14:03:13 CEST
When navigating folders with many folders inside, it is a bit annoying that Thunar always resets the selected folder to the first in the list. It would be nice if going back or going up would remember the past selected folder or the parent folder from where the new view has been opened. Searching through larger folder would become much more user-friendly with this feature.
Comment 1 Johan R 2009-11-05 18:33:54 CET
please dont forget about this for next release (i could not find a commit about this in git log)
thanks for your hard work
Comment 2 Jannis Pohlmann editbugs 2009-11-05 18:42:41 CET
Yeah, this is annoying. Tagging it with 'important-for-1.2' to remember it.
Comment 3 Jannis Pohlmann editbugs 2010-10-04 17:49:13 CEST
I've implemented a solution for a part of this feature request today (see the commit message at the bottom): auto-selecting subdirectories when walking back and forward in the history.  Could you play with it a little to tell me whether this is what you had in mind?

The other thing you requested was copying the history when creating a new window from an existing one, right? This is not implemented yet and it might be more tricky. But I'll leave this feature request open until this has been implemented as well.



commit 4ffb5b3c2ac77c8ff44f6aeee191b37cf7cecfbe
Author: Jannis Pohlmann <jannis@xfce.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 4 17:28:01 2010 +0200

    Auto-select subdirectories when walking through the history (bug #5538).
    
    When entering a new directory, Thunar now checks if the next or previous
    directory in the history is an immediate child of the new directory. If
    one of these files is a child, it selects it automatically.
    
    This makes keyboard navigation much easier. I'm sure the behaviour can
    be confusing in some situations as well, but I hope it is an
    improvement.
    
    This partly fixes bug #5538 as well.
Comment 4 Lionel Le Folgoc 2011-03-29 20:54:36 CEST
*** Bug 3184 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Harald Judt editbugs 2015-04-09 11:15:31 CEST
The final part (reusing history of origin window/tab) is fixed in git master and will be included in the next release. Closing.

Bug #5538

Reported by:
Daniel Mader
Reported on: 2009-07-08
Last modified on: 2015-04-09
Duplicates (1):
  • 3184 Thunar feature request: select or highlight last visited folder

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Jannis Pohlmann
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