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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 skrap »

kaszanka wrote: post #105
enriquto wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Recursive search instead of type-ahead search within one directory in the file picker is criminally terrible. I don't think there is any implementation of a file picker that behaves like this (other than Gtk's).

Is this https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2366 ? It really bothers me as well.

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

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Post by Kwpolska »

chrisseaton wrote: post #160
carlosrg wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cut-and-paste on Finder works perfectly fine too. It's Cmd-C and then Option-Cmd-V on the destination instead of Cmd-V. Alternatively hold Option when opening the Edit menu.

> Alternatively hold Option when opening the Edit menu. This doesn't change the Edit menu for me. Does it work for you today on latest macOS?

It does change the Edit menu in Finder on Big Sur.

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

whatever1 wrote: post #112

Linux was always a Terminal-first OS. The UI efforts never came close to the depth that MacOS and Windows have. Take for example the scaling issue. It has been now almost half a decade with 4k Displays, and Linux still does not know how to deal with it other than 100% or 200%. Currently Linux is unusable for anyone with a modern display. I appreciate the work that all the contributors put -for free- in projects like…

> Take for example the scaling issue. It has been now almost half a decade with 4k Displays, and Linux still does not know how to deal with it other than 100% or 200%. Currently Linux is unusable for anyone with a modern display.

Fractional scaling works fine on KDE, and it's worked for over a year since I first started using it.

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

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Post by Subsentient »

shrimp_emoji wrote: post #128
colonwqbang wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thunar is great, however it does no good here. Your various programs like GIMP will always use the Gnome/GTK file picker because that's what they've been programmed to do. Or, if not based on GTK they will use whatever other file picker their toolkit provided.

>Thunar is great Thunar is to Dolphin what a slingshot is to an M16. I never understood how people settle for such barebones file managers (i.e., less featureful than Windows Explorer).

What exactly is Thunar missing for you? I genuinely like it.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

agurk wrote: post #37

So I just checked on my install (Gnome 3.38.2, Debian testing) and all the GTKFileChooser windows I could find had the thumbnails representing the underlying images. Interestingly I checked a few apps I have installed through Flatpak, and they generally didn't have thumbnails for the same dialogues, although sometimes did for the "recents". Unless this has been recently added as a feature, it sounds more like he has…

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

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Post by vetinari »

heavyset_go wrote: post #211
vetinari wrote: post #204

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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.

It was a crutch when windows 95 introduced it, and it is still a crutch today.

I prefer when applications do not assume that it is available at all; if they do, they are broken. Applications, that force themselves on the user upon startup, then sit in the systray and are resisting the user that is trying to close them are outright black UI pattern.

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

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Post by samatman »

ploxiln wrote: post #198
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…

On macOS, I install https://github.com/emreyolcu/discrete-scroll to disable scroll acceleration, because I find it annoying, and macOS has no config option to disable it.

Hey at least it's possible. System Preferences-level config has a cognitive cost, it's ok by me to move 1% or fewer level stuff to plugins. My example is that I want the scroll direction reversed when I have my trackball plugged in, but not on the trackpad, and there's a helper app called Scroll Reverser which does the trick.

Alas, my white whale is focus-follows-mouse, and I just... can't have it. Not worth abandoning the Mac over, not for me, but.. arrgh.

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

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Post by benibela »

Windows 98 had the best GUI

Everything that came later has turned into crap

Also, I use the Lazarus Pascal IDE. After updating from Kubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 20.10, it has started crashing every other time I open a file with its GTK2 file chooser.

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

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Post by type0 »

swebs wrote: post #69

Someone created a fix for this 3 years ago. The Gnome maintainers refuse to add it for whatever reason. https://github.com/Dudemanguy/gtk

> The Gnome maintainers refuse to add it for whatever reason.

Because the issue would be solved, "this is why we can't have nice things"

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

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Post by kaszanka »

skrap wrote: post #231
kaszanka wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recursive search instead of type-ahead search within one directory in the file picker is criminally terrible. I don't think there is any implementation of a file picker that behaves like this (other than Gtk's).

Is this https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2366 ? It really bothers me as well.

Yes. As you can see, this is by design.
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