[Thunar-dev] Tree view in main pane?

[Go Linux]

Preparing for the transition to Wheezy when I'll be parting ways with Gnome. So far I've been quite pleased with XFCE however . . .

After so many years of using Nautilus, I'm really missing the option of tree view in the main pane. Having it in the side pane is somewhat useful but still requires extra clicking to see directory contents. :( I experimented with Nautilus on XFCE but it trashes the theme styling. There may be a way to fix that but I'd rather work with native XFCE apps anyway if possible. Any chance of this feature being integrated into Thunar? Or can a UCA accomplish this? Sorry for the very basic questions . . . just trying to get a foothold on the new learning curve. Thanks.

[Maximilien Noal]

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Preparing for the transition to Wheezy when I'll be parting ways with Gnome. So far I've been quite pleased with XFCE however . . .
After so many years of using Nautilus, I'm really missing the option of tree view in the main pane. Having it in the side pane is somewhat useful but still requires extra clicking to see directory contents. :( I experimented with Nautilus on XFCE but it trashes the theme styling. There may be a way to fix that but I'd rather work with native XFCE apps anyway if possible. Any chance of this feature being integrated into Thunar? Or can a UCA accomplish this? Sorry for the very basic questions . . . just trying to get a foothold on the new learning curve. Thanks.
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Hello,

What do you mean by 'trashing the theme styling'. Are you sure you have
a GTK3 compatible theme ? (like Greybird [1])

You can use Nautilus within Xfce as the default file manager just fine.
From my experience, if you have Xfce 4.10 or Xubuntu 12.04 (which ships
Xfce 4.8), it won't steal the desktop from xfdesktop (that is, manage
the desktop on top of the Xfce desktop !)

And if you have Xfce 4.10, opening a directory on the desktop will bring
Nautilus, as long as it is the default file manager (it can be set in
the settings manager => Preferred Applications => Utilities).

[1] http://shimmerproject.org/project/greybird/

[Go Linux]

From: Maximilien Noal <noal.maximilien at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Thunar-dev] Tree view in main pane?
To: "Xfce file manager" <thunar-dev at xfce.org>
Cc: "Go Linux" <golinux at yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012, 3:05 PM
Hello,
What do you mean by 'trashing the theme styling'. Are you
sure you have a GTK3 compatible theme ? (like Greybird [1])

I looked for gtk3 themes but didn't like any of them, including Greybird. I have always customized my gtk2 themes but the thought of customizing one in gtk3 was overwhelming at this point so I found another solution.

I installed the Mate versions of the Gnome apps that were looking funky and they work just fine with gtk2 themes. Of course with Mate available, I might decide to stick with it. But at least now XFCE is another very viable option.

Thanks for your help. After a few days, I was really beginning to warm to Thunar . . . especially once I got the Gnome search tool working with it. Final decision of which way to go is still a while off so who knows . . .