Restore previous operation drag function

Submitted by Dale

Assigned to Xfce Bug Triage

Description

I have just upgraded from Ubuntu Studio 14.04 to 16.04 and thus from Thunar 1.6.3 to 1.6.10 and some of the basic operation has changed making it a far less smooth experience to that which I am used to.

Namely it is no longer possible to drag a selection of files from starting over the file, or over the filename field in List or Detailed List view. I always use Detailed list and this includes not working when on space with no text but falling within this field. This was possible with 1.6.3, where you would have to click a second time to drag a single file (so I can see some people may prefer the new way but to not leave the old method as an option in Preferences is really short-sighted!)

Then there is the fact you can no longer do a rmb mouse drag and get the context menu for copy/move/link/cancel. This is something I used more rarely but definitely use on occasion (mostly when wanting to make a simple link quickly, now you either have to use the command line, or right click and send link to Desktop and then Cut and Paste it from the Desktop to your required location, Really clunky!) If you could add a slider to select time before context menu appears and you can still drag (I would guess the old operation was somewhere in the region of 0.2s and was fine to me, new default could be 0.0s and be like current.)

Finally didn't it used to be a user option where to have the filename column auto-extend as you navigated folders? This seems to have gone with it always doing so. I admit I do generally prefer it to extend to fit full filename in but this in itself makes the first mentioned problem even more annoying as it often pushes the space dragging can be started from off the edge of my window.

In all these changes have forced me to downgrade to 1.6.3 package used in 14.04 as although it has bugs I know and am used to these bugs and the basic operation of the program is far far better!

Version: 1.6.10