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xulops

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 7

[Solved] thunar : myfile -> copy of myfile

Hello everybody,

This is my first post, i'm a new happy user of XFCE (gnome2 -> gnome shell or unity change too much things for me).
Sorry for my bad english, i'm french, nobody is perfect.  ;-)

There is a little annoying thing on Thunar : when i copy a file (say myfile) on same directory (ctrl+C ctrl+V), the new filename is "copy of myfile".
In the same case, Nautilus gave me a filename like that "myfile (copy)".

In the second case i found the new file faster because of alphabetic order on screen, just near the original file.
With Thunar, i have to look for the new file who begin with a "C" (scrollbar...).
It's may not be important with few files in the directory, but i often do this on large directories.

I don't think it's a huge work to change that (but i'm not able to).
It's just a suggestion.

cheers.

Clio

Member

Registered: 2011-01-25

Posts: 106

Re: [Solved] thunar : myfile -> copy of myfile

Yes, it's a very bad solution by thunar.

You can download the sourcecode by thunar and change in the folder "po" the file "fr.po",
e.g. copy1, copy2, copy3 and so one.
Than as root the following code
msgfmt fr.po -o Thunar.mo

The file Thunar.mo you can copy to /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES
(this is the path by Debian)

Hope, this helps.

Last edited by Clio (2011-12-06 14:32:44)

xulops

Member

Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved] thunar : myfile -> copy of myfile

Thanks ! it works.

Except for "%uth copy of %s" (%uième copie de %s in french), because %u can't be put after %s like that "%s (%uth copy)", i can't switch arguments.
But it's not usual to do more than 3 copies.