Split View: Right click actions always affects selected file in active pane

When using Split View and you have a file selected in the active pane (File 1), then you right click on a file in the inactive pane and choose an action (File 2), the action is performed on the selected file in the active pane (File 1), not the file being right clicked in the inactive pane (File 2).

Here are some sample files to try it on: splittest.tar.gz (although if you choose something safe like Properties or Rename it can be done on personal files)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Select View > Split View
2. Left click on a file in one panel
3. Right click on a file in the opposite panel
4. Perform any action (Rename, Properties, Move to Trash, etc)

This can cause unintended files to be copied, pasted into folders, or deleted.

The same problem happens with:

• Middle click on Folders (Middle click always opens the folder selected in the active pane when folder in the inactive pane is middle clicked)
• File and Folder creation (Focus one pane, use an empty space in inactive pane to right click and create a file or folder, it is created in the active pane)
• Zoom In and Out using right click

It does not happen with right click and Arrange Items though.

In this picture, I selected (left clicked) the .deb package in the left pane, then right clicked on the .png image in the right pane and it offers the action of the file selected in the left pane (to with the package installer):

Thunar 4.18.3

Related to #945 (closed)

Thanks for reporting, I can reproduce the issue ... meh, that's a bad one which rather came in surprise, wonder how it passed unnoticed for that long.

Will look into it.

added 5. Menus 5. Split View labels

mentioned in commit 36384559

mentioned in commit 93268a19

changed milestone to %4.18.4

All cases should be fixed now by above commits, though before releasing, it would be great if you could take a try, in order to make sure that there are no side effects.

Tried it out using 36384559 with different views, settings. Seems to work perfectly to me!

I even found a cool new feature I had no idea existed all these years, middle click + direction in an empty space performs an action (back, forward, goto parent dir, reload)!

Anyway, looks and works great to me. Thanks!

Great, thank you for testing !

closed

mentioned in issue #945 (closed)