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[Suggestion] Some sort of super-quick visual indicator when you reload (and perhaps when opening new window or new tab in the same location), e.g. blank out folder contents for ~50ms?

Version information

Xfce/Thunar 4.20.3 openSUSE Tumbleweed Xfce live ISO snapshot 20250618

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open Thunar
  2. Go to View > Reload
  3. Observe how there's really no indication at all that you actually correctly clicked "Reload" and didn't just accidentally click the "View" menu again.

Current behavior

Thunar's responsiveness is so instantaneous when navigating and/or opening windows on any semi-modern hardware (even an Athlon II 250!), especially when running in live environments fully loaded into RAM, that it can actually be difficult to discern that an action has occurred when the destination is identical to the current view, whether "open new window", "open new tab" or, in this case, especially "Reload"

Expected outcome

As much as I love how instantaneous Thunar is, at least a super quick blanking of the window content for maybe like 50ms at most when you do something like the aforementioned "Reload" action (and maybe for the likes of "open new window" and "open new tab" as well).

However, this ~50ms blank-out really shouldn't be applied when navigating to and from various folders since this instantaneous is a major reason I specifically chose using Xfce/Thunar over the likes of Cinnamon/Nemo (which is noticeably delayed when using Xfce's equivalent of the "list view" on directories with a lot of files such as /etc relative to how quick Xfce/Thunar displays the exact same thing)

Edited by NM64