Thumbnails are performance hogs
And you can turn them off on any system that supports them when that is an issue.
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
#42Omg, this is insane, I now realize I automatically memorize the first 3 and last 3 parts of filenames I need in the picker... For screenshots I read the date very carefully and fear the day I upload a wrong one. I was going to the toilet with a plunger, not even realizing it. 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!
FYI, Gnome Files has exactly the same preview via space as Finder.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#43Omg, this is insane, I now realize I automatically memorize the first 3 and last 3 parts of filenames I need in the picker... For screenshots I read the date very carefully and fear the day I upload a wrong one. I was going to the toilet with a plunger, not even realizing it. 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!
There's also QuickLook on Windows 10 store which does the same thing.
https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NV4BS3L1H4S
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#44There's more serious reasons this file picker is broken. Here's a trivial to reproduce and obvious issue that's been there for several years now: 1. Open a directory that loads slowly (e.g. one with thousands of files on a smb3 mount) 2. While the list is loading, select a file (but do not open it) 3. Wait for the whole list to load Once the list finishes loading, the file on the very top of the list gets automatical…
Right. So typical bug of redrawing selection once the list is rendered.
On the plus side it should be an easy fix?
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#45Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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..
“There's some hypothetical money to claim from somebody, somewhere” is not a good funding model. At best, you'll get a dozen additional issues sorted in a large project.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#47> 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.
> Firefox on KDE uses the GTK filepicker. No thumbnails.
Not true. Firefox on current Arch/Plasma works fine with the KDE filepicker.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#48GNOME is in general terrible for everything with image related work (last tested on Ubuntu 20.04). In the past I thought finder on macOS is terrible (it's still the worst piece of macOS and I don't like it) but GNOME files aka Nautilus tops it for sure (also because of space wasting issues). XFCE and KDE both do a better job than GNOME in this regard. And also Windows Explorer was and is much much better in this area…
Why do you don't like Finder? I couldn't think any issue with it.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#49The Xfce file manager, Thunar, has thumbnails. For casual use at least, it is very similar to the Gnome file manager.
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Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#50This 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.
GNOME has an obsession with a "distraction-free" interface that really takes keyboard shortcuts to navigate efficiently. For example, despite the popularity of the dash-to-dock extension, the GNOME developers stubbornly refuse to make the dock built-in. So with the default setup, mouse users (like many in my family) need two large cursor movements (flick to the left corner, then slide down to the dock) every time they need to switch between applications[1].
In fact, at least one core developer has even floated the possibility of removing the dock and its list of currently running apps altogether.
[1] No, the window previews aren't really useful because their positions are non-deterministic and it's hard to rapidly distinguish mostly white, unlabeled windows anyway.