[democrite]

What I mean is that after some set of renames is completed, cursor focus moves out of that panel. Once renames are completed and I wish to rename another set of files, I first need to click in that panel merely to move cursor focus. Perhaps I’m missing something, but I don’t see any reason why focus and cursor position can’t remain. It could be that the tree view is entirely refreshed, yet isn’t it possible to lets say keep track that x file in the list is selected, and then restore selection?

At least with macOS table views, there are various APIs to perform such (as well as make selection visible on screen if scroll or element position changed); I’d imagine such exists also for other controls as well as on other platforms; perhaps too within Qt.