Missing right-click+drag > "Extract here" menu item

[halogen2]

Xubuntu 22.04 (but also reproducible in 21.10)

When right-click+drag an archive file from one Thunar window to another, the "Extract here" menu item is not present. The drag&drop menu only shows the "Copy here", "Move here", "Link here", and "Cancel" items.

Other context menu items from thunar-archive-plugin are there and working (right-click *without* drag, "Extract Here" and "Extract To...").

This problem does not exist in Xubuntu focal. For what it's worth, as a test I was able to compile the focal version of Thunar on 22.04, keeping the 22.04 version of thunar-archive-plugin, and that got the right-click+drag > Extract here menu item back.

I'm not sure if this bug is thunar issue or thunar-archive-plugin issue, but I was told in the following ubuntuforums thread to report this bug here in either case: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2472206

Affected Thunar version:
$ apt-cache policy thunar
thunar:
  Installed: 4.16.10-1
  Candidate: 4.16.10-1
  Version table:
 *** 4.16.10-1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: thunar-archive-plugin 0.4.0-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-18.18-generic 5.15.12
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu78
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Feb 26 11:41:27 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-02-26 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Alpha amd64 (20220225)
SourcePackage: thunar-archive-plugin
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[halogen2 (halogen2)]

So I recently had to compile Thunar 4.19.2 for Xubuntu 22.04, and saw this issue still exists there, so dug into it again. And this time was able to come up with a small patch to Thunar 4.19.2 that fix the issue (probably not the best fix, since I don't actually know what I'm doing in C/C++, but it seems to do the job so should at least point in the right direction).

This would ideally be brought to upstream Thunar/Xfce devs' attention at https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues But I was unsuccessful in looking into registering an account there. So I'm posting the patch below. Could someone please notify Thunar/Xfce devs about this bug & the below tentative patch? Thanks :)

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diff --git a/thunar/thunar-dnd.c b/thunar/thunar-dnd.c
index 1a28cfd..c755dce 100644
--- a/thunar/thunar-dnd.c
+++ b/thunar/thunar-dnd.c
@@ -151,17 +151,21 @@ G_GNUC_END_IGNORE_DEPRECATIONS
             }
           g_list_free (providers);

           /* check if we have at least one item */
           if (G_UNLIKELY (items != NULL))
             {
               /* add menu items for all items */
               for (lp = items; lp != NULL; lp = lp->next)
- thunar_gtk_menu_thunarx_menu_item_new (lp->data, GTK_MENU_SHELL (menu));
+ {
+ item = thunar_gtk_menu_thunarx_menu_item_new (lp->data, GTK_MENU_SHELL (menu));
+ gtk_widget_show(item);
+ gtk_widget_show_all(item);
+ }
               g_list_free (items);

               /* append another separator */
               item = gtk_separator_menu_item_new ();
               gtk_menu_shell_append (GTK_MENU_SHELL (menu), item);
               gtk_widget_show (item);
             }
         }