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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 heavyset_go »

vetinari wrote: post #204
heavyset_go wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As for a lack of system tray icons, the practical upshot is that my system bar isn't littered with multiple special snowflake applications, each with their own unique icon art style and mismatching proportions. Plasma Desktop's System Tray widget that lets you hide icons you don't want to see. You can disable the widget, or configure it to show no icons at all.

The problem with that is, that applications will assume it is present and enabled. If it is not, they will inflict a pain on the user until it is enabled again. For example Skype. With default being off, it is applications that have to be careful. They can use it, when they detect it is present, but cannot assume it anymore.

You can make the System Tray show no icons unless it is invoked to deal with applications that behave poorly.

System trays exist on most platforms, and apps, especially cross-platform apps, will sometimes assume that they exist. I prefer to use a system that can handle those apps.

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Post by jfoster »

buckminster wrote: post #110
ht85 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :/

This is bad but it's not unusual. There are similar issues in Firefox and Windows. Nobody gets UI asynchrony right. There are race conditions in everything. It's particularly noticeable with a slow computer.

It's akin to typing and having the characters appear out of order, isn't it? Are those particular keys more difficult to process?

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

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Post by sterlind »

michaelt wrote: post #59
its-summertime wrote: post #26

> Okay. Well, how much money should I pay for someone to fix this then? I’m legit offering a bounty here. How much are you willing to offer?

The problem with feature bounties is: $500 is a lot to give, but not much to receive.

it'd be nice if there were some quickly-accessible bounty portal (maybe even from the DE itself) where proposals could be upvoted and crowd-funded. 500 people see it and offer $10 and that's a $5000 bounty, payable on merge or returned in 90 days. people could even run side-hussles of proposing features in the hopes that they're funded.

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

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Post by anigbrowl »

Imagine these sorts of honest computer novices watch you use GNOME. Imagine how silly you look to the 99% of the population who uses a functioning file picker.

Been trying to point this out for years. I love Gnome (not sure why, I guess because it used to be lighter than Qt?) but it's gotten really tired-looking. I think back to when I used to use Enlightenment on top of Gnome and everything was super-configurable and it looked way ahead of other UIs. Some things are still better, like semi-transparent terminal windows. But I can't remember the last time I looked at Linux desktop environment and thought 'wow.' A lot of things are...pretty clunky.*

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

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Post by ironmagma »

apricot wrote: post #132
skynet-9000 wrote: post #108

How about when you try to save a file, so you choose File Save As, change the directory, and then try to start typing the filename and it starts searching (recursively!) instead of letting you type your new filename? Even better (not), then it lands on the first matching search item and makes the filename that filename?

That insane bug was reported many times, and every time the developers reply that they won't fix it, it's our workflow that's broken. Are we sure GNOME developers aren't some kind of agents provocateurs working against free software?

In this case, incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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Post by gyger »

Although this rant complains a lot, the programmers in the bug report acknowledge that they like this fixed, but also explain that there is architectural debt in the code that makes it hard to implement. Being a user in Gnome, I have to say would be nice if it is there, but this will not break my whole experience.

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

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Post by ATsch »

alkonaut wrote: post #163

Note that showing the thumbnails would likely be simple enough. The whole desktop system needs a system for generating and maintaining those thumbnails too. Those systems are always complex and messy (remember thumbs.db?) A dialog that opens every file in the directory to read the image and show it, won’t be very popular. So implementing this feature isn’t a change to a dialog but an implementation of something akin…

Nautilus does already have such a cache though. But there is little to no code sharing between nautilus and the gtk file picker, which I think is the actual problem here.

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

jdright wrote: post #156
swebs wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least enough people care that its become a meme in some tech communities. https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/File_Picker_meme

Yes, and Gnome is in part responsible for a lot of "desktop" issues with linux. Distros must switch to KDE by default to help eliminate part of this stigma. KDE is so amazingly good that there is no excuse to keep using Gnome.

I disliked KDE 3 & 4, however KDE 5 is great. Plasma Desktop is impressive and pleasant to use.

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

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Post by dheera »

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…

Also if you are in the "Recently used" tab you can't hit Ctrl+L to get a path box
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