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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

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Post by acgkmopvvgvmgv »

Pretty sure 99% of regular people would be happy if there was a desktop with GNOME 2 feature parity but with a good Wayland compositor and probably some modern features that would come from that (multimonitor, VRR, ...).

I just can't understand how anyone could defend GNOME 3. Their own staff have to use extensions (that break every update), even Fedora (!!!) has to patch GNOME packages now.

They kept fighting that their workflow is superior and now they are going to change it all over next release. They keep butchering their toolkit, I can only use Qt applications now. Hell I'll take even Electron over GTK.

For me the Linux desktop with a WM is the perfect balance of exposing the internals and UX. It could be better but that's true to every OS, at least here I have my freedom. I'm keeping my eye on KDE, seems like they rewrote their less than ideal compositor (legacy X11 is a burden) and maybe in a year I could be using that.

I've once heard someone say that GNOME is Microsoft's favorite DE. You can guess why.

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by opencl »

sampo wrote: post #10

The Xfce file manager, Thunar, has thumbnails. For casual use at least, it is very similar to the Gnome file manager.

The post isn't actually about GNOME's file manager (which does have thumbnails), it's about the GTK file picker which is the same in any DE.

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

hedora wrote: post #29

This has somehow gotten worse in recent years. When saving, it used to be you could use the mouse to navigate to a directory, then type the desired filename, and press enter. Now, typing the filename initiates a contextual search within the current directory. Clicking in the filename textbox and starting to type doesn’t work either. You have to highlight the base (not the extension or “.”) of the filename. At that po…

Doing some introspection (all too rare for me!), I find that this is the reason I've started avoiding creating new files in LibreOffice, and why my Downloads and Pictures folders are flat, unstructured messes. Too many programs use the GNOME file selector.

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by swebs »

albertzeyer wrote: post #16

You will find lots of such examples of a feature which you personally find very important and wonder why such a simple thing is not supported yet. I guess everyone has such examples. And you will also find such examples for MacOSX or Windows. 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 w…

At least enough people care that its become a meme in some tech communities.

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/File_Picker_meme

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by agurk »

So I just checked on my install (Gnome 3.38.2, Debian testing) and all the GTKFileChooser windows I could find had the thumbnails representing the underlying images.

Interestingly I checked a few apps I have installed through Flatpak, and they generally didn't have thumbnails for the same dialogues, although sometimes did for the "recents".

Unless this has been recently added as a feature, it sounds more like he has another issue affecting his desktop rather than outright missing functionality. Or could this be a Debian applied patch? I couldn't find any details after a quick google.

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by onli »

londons_explore wrote: post #5
senko wrote: post #2

Users 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...

I wouldn't be confident that funding is the solution here. This is about adding a feature to a project that seems to be completely disinterested in that feature, some recent answers from project developers in the gitlab issue are even hostile to it. Likely to be not something money can fix, this goes directly into the deep rooted problems GNOME has with usability.

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by johnchristopher »

> One might also say "Just use KDE!" Yeah, I guess I could use KDE, just like I use the downstairs toilet instead of the other ones.

Yeah but when you go to the downstairs toilet you can't bring in your favourite newspaper because the paper its printed on isn't compatible with the light bulb and you can't read it.

Firefox on KDE uses the GTK filepicker. No thumbnails.

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

#40

Post by 0xbadcafebee »

OSS is not designed to solve user problems, it's designed to solve developer problems. Therefore it will always suck compared to a commercial product developed for users. Good product design solves users' problems. (And usually there's somebody who will get fired if they wait indefinitely to solve it)
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