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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 ubercow13 »

agurk wrote: post #77
ubercow13 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you provide a screenshot?

If you read the article more closely than I did originally there is an example of what I see in their original article [0]. The thumbnail is part of the list view and they want to see a thumbnail without the other file details. [0] https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome2.png

Yes, they are so small that they are completely useless. What is needed is a widget like the one from Windows at the top of the article that actually shows all the thumbnails at a decent size so you can use them to actually locate the right image.

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

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Post by saagarjha »

chrisseaton wrote: post #113
spideymans wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think they possibly mis-spoke and mean cut-and-paste, which does appear to be intentionally permanently disabled in Finder via the menu or shortcut. But you can drag so it's not a huge issue to me. Copy-and-paste works a-ok.

It's not permanently disabled, it enables itself when you are editing text (for example, if you're renaming a file).

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

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Post by city41 »

teekert wrote: post #11

Omg, 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!

I don't understand the wrong screenshot fear. Can't you confirm it's the right one once you select it and see the preview to the right?

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

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Post by saagarjha »

p1necone wrote: post #82

Aren't there plenty of little UX niggles in macOS/windows just like this that haven't been fixed for years either? I'm not sure why this is being used as a reason why "Free desktop operating systems are a joke". I think "use KDE" is perfectly valid advice here too. The toilet analogy doesn't really hold, your satisfaction of software that works for you shouldn't be at all affected by the existence of software you don…

The point is that there are fewer because people actually have to use that UI that can't figure out workarounds.

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

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Post by sercand »

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 ;)

Copy, Cut, and Paste works just fine. I use the following default shortcuts:

Cmd+C: Put file to Clipboard

Cmd+V: Copy file in Clipboard

Cmd+Option+V: Move file in Clipboard (aka Cut)

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

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Post by tomsmeding »

alpaca128 wrote: post #119
deergomoo wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not sure if this is still the case as I haven’t used desktop Linux for about a year now, but what made this extra irritating is that the file name would be highlighted already! How on earth can selected text in an in-focus modal window not be the target of keyboard input?

For me this is really annoying as well, together with the stupid text input fields that may display a blinking cursor even when they're not focused. And Firefox has this weird issue that now and then a newly opened tab doesn't focus the address bar, forcing me to use the mouse to select it. And I still don't get this trend in some newer software to make tab switching via Ctrl-[Shift]-Tab feel like the lottery instead…

> And Firefox has this weird issue that now and then a newly opened tab doesn't focus the address bar, forcing me to use the mouse to select it.

I'm not sure I have this issue, but ctrl-L (or equivalently, ctrl-K) focuses the address bar. Less mouse usage.

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

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

saagarjha wrote: post #142
chrisseaton wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they possibly mis-spoke and mean cut-and-paste, which does appear to be intentionally permanently disabled in Finder via the menu or shortcut. But you can drag so it's not a huge issue to me. Copy-and-paste works a-ok.

It's not permanently disabled, it enables itself when you are editing text (for example, if you're renaming a file).

I think they mean cut+paste to move a file.

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

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Post by uncledave »

enriquto wrote: post #76
snvzz wrote: post #27

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.

That one really really really pissed me off because it’s a task I expect to do tens of times a day. Also it has some serious focus loss issues in that space where you’ll have to tab or click something again.

I must have installed a Linux distribution 100 times with the intent of using it as a desktop and lasted less than a day every time. I’ve been doing it since 1998. Literally something that horrible punches me in the face every time.

I refer back to my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25678434

I bought a Mac now. I’m too old for the fight.

Everything I do server side is on Linux but the desktop is vile and I want no part of it any more.

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

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Post by alkonaut »

zapzupnz wrote: post #84

On macOS, when you drag a file into an Open or Save panel, the panel’s current directory switches to the dragged file’s containing directory and highlights that dragged file. On Windows, when you drag a file into an Open or Save panel, the dragged file is moved from its original location to the panel’s current directory. It is a destructive action! That may be one little thing but it’s part of a whole number of reaso…

What’s a save panel? You mean a save dialog?

Note that on windows there are at least 3 generations of save dialogs. Which one you see depends on which generation of the api is used.

The most common one is the more modern which is basically just an explorer window. Dragging a file into an explorer window works that same regardless of whether it’s an open/save dialog or not. It’s a move/copy operation (depending on e.g modifier keys).

I didn’t quite get the point of dragging a file to a save dialog at all though? (Assuming that’s what you meant by panel) is it that you wanted to use it for navigate+set-name? That to me as a windows user seems alien. I expect it to work as an explorer window! Expectations are everything. The principle of least surprise doesn’t really work cross platform I guess.

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