Thunar Dimming of Inactive Pane

va9iff · 2024-04-26 15:41:01

Alexander Schwinn wrote:

I develop / spend so much of my free time (mostly thunar)!

good to catch you!
Why can't I tell the active pane in thunar's split view?

no dimming for inactive pane. no border. no highlight. even the selections persists. I mean there's slight (1px or so) border but that's unnoticeable.
this prevents me from using split view.
when I hit Ctrl C which file is going to get copied? there's 2 panes with 2 different files selected.
when I close the split view, which tabs are gonna stay? the tabs of the closed pane just disappear without a warning. so I can lose my location. (yeah I can re open them, but makes it a pain when they're not local folders)

so, I want to have split view's inactive pane dimmed. I don't mean you have to implement it, but at least give me a class name so we can modify gtkrc with some brightness effect or we can give a border idk. couldn't find a way anywhere, so had to ask. maybe an inappropriate thread, if so, then sorry. love what you do <3 thanks in advance.

Alexander Schwinn · 2024-04-26 15:58:30

va9iff wrote:

maybe an inappropriate thread, if so, then sorry. love what you do <3 thanks in advance.

As you said yourself, all that is very off-topic here. Please open issues for it on https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues

ToZ · 2024-04-26 16:29:52

If you're looking for a quick CSS tweak to adjust the borders of the active tab, you can use:

.thunar notebook {border-width: 10px; border-color: red}

...adjust to suit.

va9iff · 2024-04-27 10:55:24

ToZ wrote:

adjust the borders of the active tab

but I repeatedly said "pane" not "tabs" and even gave an example with split view disappearing tabs. then let me give you a real example. see the picture pelow
https://imgur.com/a/fiG2vnd

Difference between Tabs and Panes

theres 3 Tabs - va9iff, va9ff/bosh, va9iff/dolu
there's 2 Panes - Left and Right.

Left Pane has va9iff and va9iff/bosh Tabs
Right Pane has only va9iff/dolu Tab

Left pane's Active Tab is va9iff/bosh
Right Pane's Active Tab is va9iff/dolu

BUT which Pane is Active? Right? or Left?
see there's a.txt in both folders. both looks "selected".
but what will happen if I hit Ctrl C? Left a.txt or Right a.txt gets copied?

by looking at the location bar, we can determine the current active Pane (and that's only possible when 2 Panes show different paths). so we can say va9iff/dolu/a.txt will get copied. but there's no indicator other than knowing the path we're at. if I disable location bar from Toolbar, I will not able to tell. I mean there's still a very, very thin border like 1px between Right Pane and toolbar, which is supposed to be the indicator? I can hardly tell. and when moving files quickly, it's really not useful.

I want to tell which PANE is Active. RIGHT or LEFT?
ideally, dimming the inactive Pane.

Last edited by va9iff (2024-04-27 11:00:39)

Tamaranch · 2024-04-27 11:29:53

@ToZ: Could this be split into another thread please? (from #20 perhaps)

Last edited by Tamaranch (2024-04-27 11:31:36)

ToZ · 2024-04-27 14:13:31

Tamaranch wrote:

@ToZ: Could this be split into another thread please? (from #20 perhaps)

Yes. New thread created.

ToZ · 2024-04-27 14:15:18

va9iff wrote:

I want to tell which PANE is Active. RIGHT or LEFT?
ideally, dimming the inactive Pane.

Perhaps best to create an issue report as Alexander suggests. I'm not sure if that kind of separation can be created using CSS.

va9iff · 2024-04-27 16:07:16

ToZ wrote:

I'm not sure if that kind of separation can be created using CSS.

doesn't have to be CSS. I just want to be able to tell which `a.txt` is gonna get copied. any trick?

va9iff · 2024-04-27 19:29:03

at least, is there a way to always show Tabs of Thunar (even when there's only 1 Tab) like in the xfce4 terminal ?

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