101–110 of 756 posts
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…
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 t…
You mean like the ability to put things on the desktop? There's even a desktop folder, but well....
I use gnome and I agree with you.
It's a design decision. There is no right or wrong.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
All of us on a Pentium II 300MHz with 32MB RAM
I don't think GNOME runs on those specs.
There'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…
Even worse is when you know the exact file name that you want to open, and the interface fights against you writing it! For example I want to open /tmp/a.png, but there's thousands of files on /tmp and the cursor disappears while "loading" them, and and some characters of the file name are lost, or typed on different parts of the interface.
> 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 if you set the GTK_USE_PORTAL environment variable. $ GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 firefox The above will make Firefox use the KDE filepicker.
- Because it comes preinstalled in their computers.
- Because that is what schools and workplaces use.
- Because MS Office is the de-facto office suite (although now you have Google Docs, LibreOffice, FreeOffice, etc)
- Because most games are released for Windows.
All these reasons are pretty sad.
There'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…
Let's do another... Open any directory with 3+ items. As first item is highlighted, quickly hit , , . The 3rd item opens... There is a lag when hitting and the last is processed out of order :/