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

Post by dexwiz » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 12:48 AM UTC

seltzered_ wrote: post #56

Reminds me of a different story involving Bill Gates, toilets, and user interface design: https://web.archive.org/web/20120427101911/http://jacksonfis... "At one particularly frustrating moment, I offered the following: “Bill, a shower, a toilet, and a water fountain all have mechanisms to control water flow, places where the water comes out, some sort of porcelain basin to hold the water, and a drain, but we don’t c…

Post by CiceroCiceronis » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 12:51 AM UTC

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…

Post by sergeykish » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 12:51 AM UTC

andrewmackrodt wrote: post #300

sergeykish wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never noticed such issue, quick search shows that one has to start on edge and movement in vertical direction [1]. Vanilla edges are 8% of the width on each side [2]. There was a proposal to add configuration option [3], rejected — they've tried this route before, it was impossible to test. Fortunately source is there and it is easy to patch (try to set 0%). That's quite common, for example there are several pat…

Thanks for your detailed reply. Unfortunately the Microsoft Precision Touchpad on my Dell XPS 2-in-1 2019 (Wacom HID 48EE Finger) does not support ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR; it's worth mentioning however that Windows works perfectly and palm rejection seems to work on a hardware/firmware level (no output when running "libinput debug-events" and moving a palm) making libinput restrictions unnecessary and most definitely unwa…

            /* palm edges are 8% of the width on each side */
    -       mm.x = min(8, width * 0.00);
    +       mm.x = min(8, width * 0.08);
            edges = evdev_device_mm_to_units(device, &mm);
            tp->palm.left_edge = edges.x;
     
    -       mm.x = width - min(8, width * 0.00);
    +       mm.x = width - min(8, width * 0.08);
            edges = evdev_device_mm_to_units(device, &mm);
            tp->palm.right_edge = edges.x;

    $ yay -G libinput
    $ cd libinput
    $ makepkg -so
    ==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg...
        libinput-1.16.4.tar.xz ... FAILED (unknown public key E23B7E70B467F0BF)
    ==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!
    $ gpg --recv-key E23B7E70B467F0BF
    $ makepkg -so
    $ vim src/libinput-1.16.4/src/evdev-mt-touchpad.c 
    $ makepkg -fei

Post by rubycon22 » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 12:53 AM UTC

Tijdreiziger wrote: post #317

rubycon22 wrote: post #305

This is the one problem that torments me every time I am reminded of it. Just today, once again, I tried doing the hack to make programs use the kdialog instead of the GTK filepicker. kdialog works, however none of the thumbnails are showing! Only the icons showing the filetype. I don't use a desktop environment, only a tiling window manager, so that's probably it. But what pains me is as much as I search, I don't kn…

> I don't use a desktop environment, only a tiling window manager, so that's probably it. I don't use the Linux desktop often, so perhaps this is an ignorant comment, but doesn't not using a DE require a certain amount of elbow grease anyway? If you wanted a more polished/less DIY experience, it seems to me that you should be using a DE.

Post by PaulDavisThe1st » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 12:55 AM UTC

zapzupnz wrote: post #193

alkonaut wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Yes, a save panel is a save dialogue. It’s just Apple terminology. > I don’t quite get the point of dragging a file to a save dialog at all though? On macOS (since forever) and iOS (since 11), there is a heavy focus on drag. You should be able to drag anything from any app to any other app and something should happen. This is facilitated both by system-level frameworks (so that all apps can gain correct drag-handling…