Thunar file manager has fixed directory refresh period - that could totally saturate slow VPN links with directory refresh requests (they are somehow queued on the client side and the line stays unusable for some time even when I close the Thunar window). The same problem happens when I browse huge directories (containing thousands of files) on highly loaded samba servers with sufficient connection speed) - and that produces even more unwanted load of the server. Other browsers like Konqueror / Midnight Commander do not suffer such problems, because they don't refresh directories automatically. Please, implement the following two suggestions .... 1.) configuration of default directory refresh interval 2.) configuration of refresh interval per directory or directory subtree (wildcard usage would be great; possibility to completely disable autorefresh would be great too)
NOTE: Maybe I am wrong and the directories are refreshed on some event ... but it unfortunately happens too often for samba shares (it looks like the directory refresh period is for some reason shorter than the particular refreshes)... In such case some directory refresh blacklist (with wildcard support) could solve this issue ...
I don't know if the problem description is clear enough or too confusing ... please, do not hesitate to ask for the clarification ...
With GIO/GVFS this is not a thunar issue anymore.