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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 Teever »

therealmarv wrote: post #57
sercand wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you don't like Finder? I couldn't think any issue with it.

My biggest complaint: Normal Copy and Paste does not work. My mother is used to Copy and Paste and it would work in Linux but not in macOS finder because of: think different Also why are folders sometimes cluttered all over the place and shorts cuts so weird? Well I fixed it all with Forklift but I also grew up with Norton Commander ;)

I actually filed a bug report with Apple in 2005 regarding the inability to cut and paste files in Finder.

They actually responded a few years later and said that this is the intended functionality.

Maddening.

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

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

Spivak wrote: post #75
wizzwizz4 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Isn’t that “better” in some sense? You don’t have to actually categorize anything in order to find it later. Just type what you want and let tracker pull it up for you. If I could just “accio my black jeans” I wouldn’t bother organizing my closet.

I suppose it might be better? But the folder-first sort means I've got a miscellaneous pile of extracted archives very far away from the archives themselves… it's a complete mess.

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

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Post by phkahler »

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…

>> For me personally, I wonder why mouse wheel/scroll acceleration is still not implemented.

This came up recently with SolveSpace. Two developers spent an amazing amount of time getting scroll wheel zoom right. Discussion here: https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/pull/825

Love these guys, they give a crap about usability. BTW next release soon - after a bit more polish. Polish take time and work, but do you really care about the software if you don't spend some time unclogging the toilet?

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

#95

Post by nl »

Spivak wrote: post #75
wizzwizz4 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Isn’t that “better” in some sense? You don’t have to actually categorize anything in order to find it later. Just type what you want and let tracker pull it up for you. If I could just “accio my black jeans” I wouldn’t bother organizing my closet.

The assumes you know the name of the random image you downloaded to insert into the document. mjx3AmQXM5OrkxV7.jpg isn't super easy to remember (as a random real example chosen from my downloads directory)

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

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

I have a lot of issues with gnome on the latest Ubuntu. When you open a folder with icon view, sometimes loading the folder just stalls. You have to go back and open it again and then it’s fine. Also selecting multiple items with ctrl click only works in list view. There’s some bug in icon view where when I click on an item it instantly scrolls my window and selects something else. It’s honestly weird that this basic aspect of file browsing is so broken. I do wonder too if I’ve broken my system or if it always behaves this way.

As an aside right now I’m designing a part in the free version of the commercial software OnShape and I just discovered it does not support scaling a sketch. There is a long support thread going back 5 years of people asking how to do this and recommendations for elaborate workarounds. I decided to export the sketch as a drawing, open it in the free and open source program QCAD, select everything and choose the “scale” option, scale as desired, save, then upload to OnShape.

FLOSS needs to be better than this but as someone else said commercial software has issues like this too. The reality I think is that we need to look at how to better fund open source, as time strapped teams aren’t super functional in general.

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

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Post by spideymans »

therealmarv wrote: post #57
sercand wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you don't like Finder? I couldn't think any issue with it.

My biggest complaint: Normal Copy and Paste does not work. My mother is used to Copy and Paste and it would work in Linux but not in macOS finder because of: think different Also why are folders sometimes cluttered all over the place and shorts cuts so weird? Well I fixed it all with Forklift but I also grew up with Norton Commander ;)

Can you elaborate? Copy and Paste works exactly as I'd expect in Finder.
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