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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
#222Interestingly, I never noticed it until now.
I guess it's extremely important for some people and not important at all for others.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#223This 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…
Yes! This issue infuriates me to no end. I've made my set up quite clean, I've got my tiling window manager set up how I like it, but if I want to keep using firefox I have to keep dealing with this ridiculous bug. What on earth was the person thinking when they created this?
I've seen many other downgrades with gtk updates. The UI for Deluge, one of my favourite pieces of software, got pretty ruined by the gtk3 uptick.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#224You 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 I implemented it a while ago for Xorg, which is outdated now, and also the maintainer w…
I love Linux desktop but miss these creature comforts too. For me, my biggest input issue is the lack of customisation around trackpad deadzones, i.e. the 15% or so deadzone on the left and right of the trackpad. My trackpad is exactly in the center of my laptop but my palm is usually offset slightly to the left. This means my first interaction with the trackpad often happens in this deadzone area on the left-hand si…
Sounds like a libinput bug.
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput/
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/touchpad...
I'd file a bug though, and see if whatever's wrong can be fixed for every trackpad of that same make/model.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#225author of gnome file picker here.
jk, where are you? what do you have to say for yourself!
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or when you have the full path name already and want to paste it in to GtkFileChooser. It turns out this is possible, but you'd never know it from the UI.
The Windows folder chooser dialogue has this problem as well.
Old one yes. New one (since win vista) allows you to pick folders.
pFileOpen->SetOptions(FOS_PICKFOLDERS | FOS_PATHMUSTEXIST | FOS_ALLOWMULTISELECT);
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Incidentally, that lag is there independent of how fast your disk is, it seems. It's kind of annoying.
That's likely the fault of the GVFS and other virtual-fs-on-top-of-kernel-VFS layers. Gtk seems to be slower than others (such as KIO/KDE), but all of them are pretty slow. E.g. the KDE file picker takes about a second or so to finish listing the contents of my home directory (though it is usable while it is doing so, unlike the Gtk dialog), where the Gtk takes quite a bit longer (perhaps on the order of 3-5 seconds)…
KIO is pretty fast I think. Dolphin is insanely fast at least - if you list a large directory almost everything that can't be loaded instantly is loaded asynchronously and streamed in to the UI after the UI becomes responsive. I think the KDE file picker is using other code altogether, I'm not sure why it's so much slower. GIO is horribly slow and makes everything that uses it next to useless, eg [1]
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#228Aren'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…
Frankly I find the whole blog post silly. All OSes/software have trade offs. It's just a question of what is important to you. I'm primarily an Ubuntu user but I have one Windows machine. There are things in Windows that just flabbergast me that people put up with. And Windows users can easily say the same thing about most Linux variants.
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#229no desktop, no system tray icons.. gnome is a joke
Tools and features have ergonomics and affordances that suggest a certain way of using them, and desktop filling just seems to encourage people to make a massive mess. Even when I was a Windows user, desktop icons were the first thing to go. Not having quick access to a dumping ground meant that I had to go out of my way to make a mess. As for a lack of system tray icons, the practical upshot is that my system bar is…
Somehow nextcloud shows a system tray icon on my Gnome laptop
Looks like there are still tray icons, they just need to be implemented differently?
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#230Although 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.
Honestly, they should just toss the file picker and write a new one. It wouldn't be too hard to do. I've written custom file pickers in Qt before, and I've used GTK+'s API a lot for other things, it's not very different. I think they'd just need some guy to spend 3 days on it.