Select next file after delete, not previous

Thunar 4.16 delete key moves the cursor up. In the previous version 1.8.xx the cursor moved down when using the delete key to delete files. Is there any way to have Thunar exhibit the old behavior? I am using Manjaro xfce (Unstable) and Arch Linux in a VM and both exhibit this behavior.

Resembles this: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5361

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This was intentionally changed. See #69 (closed) and #324 (closed).

Thanks. It has taken some getting used to when deleting multiple files that are contiguous in the list. I have to start from the bottom when sorted alphabetically.

The current behavior may not be optimal or what the user expects. It would be best to check how other file managers handle this and if there is a common pattern, adapt it.

#69 (closed) changed it from not selecting anything to select something. I suppose I picked thw wrong "something" and we closed #324 (closed) too quickly

Nautilus: Select next file
Nemo: Select next file
Caja: Select next file
Dolphin: Select next file
PCManFM: Select next file

.. so yes, it would be good if thunar as well would select the next file :)

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changed title from Thunar 4.16 to Select next file after delete, not previous

Looks like we have some extra-logic to force selection of the previous file instead of doing nothing ... while doing nothing already selects the next file. :)

Here a patch: 0001-Dont-select-previous-file-after-delete-trash-Issue-4.patch

Please take a try and let me know if it works for you / if you see any side-effects ! I plan to apply it to 4.16 and master.

I applied the patch, rebooted and it now works as expected. Many thanks!

mentioned in commit 61d267da

mentioned in commit 7b70aac5

Thank you for testing! pushed now.

To be released in thunar 4.16.3

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I tested this with Xubuntu 21.04 beta with Thunar 4.17.1 and it is only working in list view but neither in icon nor in compact view. So can we please reopen this issue? Many thanks in advance.

Just re-testet 4.17.1 and 4.16.3 and it works fine for me in all views. As well tried 4.16.2 to see the difference.

Note that the "selected item", depending on the used theme, might not be very good visible in icon/compact view. Only if you use the arrow keys to navigate, the highlightning will be used (that was different in 4.16.2 for some reason).

I can confirm that the keyboard focus moves to the next file. The same behavior can be seen in Nautilus/Nemo/Caja, so I think this works as intended.

mentioned in issue #1428 (closed)