[rox-devel] Feature Suggestion Patch and Bug Report for Filer

[David R. <dav...@t-...>]

Hi,

on the off chance that this mailing list is still active: Attached you
find a tiny patch that changes selection events in details mode so that
only clicks on the name or icon initiate actions on the file and that
all other columns count as background for the purposes of
filer_perform_action. That makes lasso selection MUCH easier, without
that change you have to aim for some few pixels "between" the files.
Beware, I know basically nothing about C or GTK, so this is more of a
demo than anything else, but it works and does not appear to introduce
any problems.

Furthermore, a bug report: According to strace, rox-filer hangs on
listxattr when browsing NFS directories or directories that contain
symlinks into or mountpoints for them. (Unless xattr is disabled, of
course.) I don't know if that's a problem of rox-filer or of the library
you use, but I guess you're using an obsolete call there or something
like that because the bug was introduced without changes in rox-filer.

Regards,
David

PS: If this list and project are dead, that's sad - RF is still the best
light-weight file manager for Linux.