Setting to show full path in title bar

The title bar shows the name of the current folder and it would be nice to have an option to show the full path.

This option is available in Nemo and Windows Explorer.

It looks quite nice in alt-tab.

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But please only a xfconf setting ... no need to configure that in the thunar preferences.

I suppose it should be "[path] - Thunar", like you suggested in #482 (closed)

A patch would be very welcome !

Without a entry in the preferences, how would users ever find the option? Yes '[path] - Thunar' would be the formatting.

Like all other expert settings, via xfce4-settings-editor

Seems this is already implemented with the 'misc-full-path-in-title' xfconf entry. https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/blob/master/thunar/thunar-preferences.c#L556

Can we turn this on by default, as it is in terminal and mousepad.

Humm, seems to be broken. first it needs to get fixed.

Likely a 4.16 bug as it looks fine for me on 1.8.13.

b6c24d0c Introduced the bug. You can see that using git-blame.

meh, looks like I broke it

Guess the change needs to happen in this area. https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/blob/master/thunar/thunar-window.c#L3656

mentioned in merge request !73 (merged)

closed with commit ecfe7806

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mentioned in merge request !112 (merged)

I don't understand why this option is a hidden xfconf setting and not in the Thunar preferences where it would logically be and where a user might actually have some chance of finding it without wasting time google searching.

I don't understand why this option is a hidden xfconf setting and not in the Thunar preferences

The reason for that is, to prevent the thunar settings-dialog from looking like this:

As well note that misc-full-path-in-title meanwhile is TRUE by default.

But yea, possible it would be should at least add a link to the hidden settings in the thunar settings dialog.

This is funny to me because this photo you shared is pretty much how Thunar titlebars look now with the new default setting, if you happen to be looking at a folder that has a long file path.