GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
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GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
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Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#2Users like these are why maintainers of open source software are burning out.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#3Death by a thousand small inefficiencies, quirks and bugs...
It's such a shame, because fixing most of these small bugs is far less work than building new features. Nobody wants to put the work in though... Nobody has the overarching vision of a consistent UX that just works out of the box without oddities, quirks and workarounds.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#4Sounds like there is already a working patch on GitHub, but it's not been reviewed because an MR wasn't opened on GitLab?
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#5Users like these are why maintainers of open source software are burning out.
These user complaints are 100% legit...
But we need some good funding model to pay someone to fix them. Good funding models are something the opensource world has been missing for a while...
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#6no desktop, no system tray icons.. gnome is a joke
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#7Users like these are why maintainers of open source software are burning out.
These user complaints are 100% legit... But we need some good funding model to pay someone to fix them. Good funding models are something the opensource world has been missing for a while...
He IS actually offering a bounty, though..
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#8This brings up a great point about GNOME. GNOME appears to try to emulate macOS at times, but tends to try to oversimplify and paradoxically be quite user-unfriendly.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#9Indeed. Unbelievable omission for a project that touts simplicity and usability above else.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#10The Xfce file manager, Thunar, has thumbnails. For casual use at least, it is very similar to the Gnome file manager.