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Btw, if you work on MacOS (which has been a while for me now), you get very used to hitting space everywhere to get previews. What a feature!
Because it’s not important enough to them to force a fix. Hard to believe, in this day and age, but some developers have other priorities, especially when working with free software.
I question if this is actually a bug. It seems to be working as intended, just not the way the author wants. Seems like the quickest solution would be for the author to either take on the job themself, or absent the time or expertise, pay someone else to do it.
The Xfce file manager, Thunar, has thumbnails. For casual use at least, it is very similar to the Gnome file manager.
Death 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.
I agree, this is the problem. GUI OS developers like to work on big features and eye candy but forget to fix the basics. I have yet to find a Window system that:
1. Works without glitches in HiDPI setups. Especially mouse pointer glitches.
2. Comes out of the box with fonts that don't feel like thorns in the eyes, including the browser.
For me personally, I wonder why mouse wheel/scroll acceleration is still not implemented. I implemented it a while ago for Xorg, which is outdated now, and also the maintainer was not happy with my approach. It's now a long outstanding proposal for libinput, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/7 / https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/405 (original bug report from 2010: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29905).
Anyway, I guess there are actually not too much people caring about this feature. And the intersection of those who do and those who have enough free time and knowledge to implement this is just empty.
Btw, I don't quite understand the comment about KDE. It sounds like the the author claims that KDE lacks other relevant features. But comparing Gnome vs KDE, it is quite clear that KDE has much more features. This is never a complaint I heard about KDE.
Users like these are why maintainers of open source software are burning out.
In this time and age, do we really need "desktops"? If you only need a full-screen terminal and a full-screen browser (as is the case for many people), the whole desktop thing is unnecessary clutter.
In this time and age, do we really need "desktops"? If you only need a full-screen terminal and a full-screen browser (as is the case for many people), the whole desktop thing is unnecessary clutter.