Thunar

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Thunar, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

File names with hash values sort in a jumbled order, with no obvious way to fix it2025-09-29
Right-clicking a file hides the new folder and paste options, forcing users to find empty space2024-09-08
Mixes relative day names with plain dates, making timestamps confusing to parse2020-10-12
Backspace jumps to parent directory even while typing a path2018-11-24