List view - when no files are selected in a folder with multiple files, the 'Home' key does not highlight the top-listed file like it does in "compact view" and "icon view"
(this was tested on live sessions of both Mint 21 beta Xfce and Manjaro 21.3.5 Xfce, the former running Thunar v4.16.10 and the latter v4.16.11)
If you have your folder view set to "List View" and you view a folder that has multiple files and no files are highlighted, pressing the "Home" key does not highlight the top-listed file.
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- make sure Thunar's folder view is set to "List View" and that it's also using that by default
- in Thunar, navigate to a folder with multiple files, such as
/etc/
- press the "Home" key on your keyboard
- observe how no files become highlighted
- press the back button in Thunar
- go into the
/etc/
folder again - make sure that Thunar is still in "list view"
- press the "End" key on your keyboard
- observe how it does highlight the last file that is listed
- change Thunar to "compact view"
- press the back button in Thunar
- go into the
/etc/
again - make sure that Thunar is still set to "compact view"
- press the "Home" key on your keyboard
- observe how the first-listed file is now highlighted
- press the back button in Thunar
- go into the
/etc/
folder again - make sure that Thunar is still in "compact view"
- press the "End" key on your keyboard
- observe how the last-listed file is now highlighted
- change Thunar to "icon view"
- press the back button in Thunar
- go into the
/etc/
again - make sure that Thunar is still set to "icon view"
- press the "Home" key on your keyboard
- observe how the first-listed file is now highlighted
- press the back button in Thunar
- go into the
/etc/
folder again - make sure that Thunar is still in "compact view"
- press the "End" key on your keyboard
- observe how the last-list file is now highlighted
Simply put, I would think that it would make sense that pressing the "Home" key on your keyboard would highlight the first-listed file when using "list view".
Note that pressing the "Home" key highlights the first-listed file in both "compact view" and "icon view"; additionally, the "End" key (which effectively does the opposite function) highlights the last-listed file in not just "compact view" and "icon view" but even in "list view".
Also note that, even in "list view" the 'Home' key does in fact currently highlight the first-listed file if there's a file that's already highlighted (e.g. if you press the 'End' key and then subsequently press the 'Home' key).