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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 TingPing »

ansible wrote: post #165
acgkmopvvgvmgv wrote: post #31

Pretty sure 99% of regular people would be happy if there was a desktop with GNOME 2 feature parity but with a good Wayland compositor and probably some modern features that would come from that (multimonitor, VRR, ...). I just can't understand how anyone could defend GNOME 3. Their own staff have to use extensions (that break every update), even Fedora (!!!) has to patch GNOME packages now. They kept fighting that t…

> ...but with a good Wayland compositor... Up until 2020, I didn't use screen sharing all that much, so the lack of support for that wasn't a big deal with using Wayland. Now days though... this is a problem. I feel sorry for the folks running some Linux desktop that don't know why the option to start screen sharing just doesn't exist in various apps. I can imagine another Linux user saying "but it is right there!" t…

GNOME on Wayland supports VNC ootb.

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

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Post by Arnavion »

KraftKacke wrote: post #380
ansible wrote: post #165

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> ...but with a good Wayland compositor... Up until 2020, I didn't use screen sharing all that much, so the lack of support for that wasn't a big deal with using Wayland. Now days though... this is a problem. I feel sorry for the folks running some Linux desktop that don't know why the option to start screen sharing just doesn't exist in various apps. I can imagine another Linux user saying "but it is right there!" t…

To be fair, that's rather a problem of the applications not supporting Wayland. You can share within Xworld and Waylandworld, but not between them. I assume that's a non trivial problem and inherent to Wayland's design.

You can screenshare just fine through xdg-desktop-portal. It has nothing to do with whether the DE / compositor providing the implementation of xdp uses X or Wayland or something else, and it has nothing to do with whether the application doing the screenshare has an X window or a wayland window or any window at all.

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

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Post by still_grokking »

Spivak wrote: post #407
still_grokking wrote: post #243

As a KDE user I wouldn't care what the Gnome people do if their BS wouldn't affect me. But it does, and it's annoying! They refuse since over a decade to implement some generic way to open the file-picker native to the running DE. They force their garbage usability on everybody, even people that would prefer not to use "anything Gnome". Same issue with CSDs, by the way. Like I said: They can have their broken stuff a…

You can actually fix that! Set GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 in your environment and then basically all your GTK apps will use the platform file picker.

It works fine with Firefox for me since some time. But does it really work with all GTK apps? I would have to install some Gnome app to test.

Maybe someone else could confirm? This would be progress! (Even it uses some parts of Flatpak under the hood, which is less nice).

I'm a little bit skeptical as Firefox had to add support for the desktop-portal before it started to work.

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

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Post by dleslie »

dm319 wrote: post #244
kaszanka wrote: post #105

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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).

Yup - one of the many reasons I needed to stay on MATE.

MATE continues to be fantastic; I see no reason to switch.

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

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Post by MegaDeKay »

young_unixer wrote: post #293
jdright wrote: post #156

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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 find KDE to be pretty ugly. For instance, margins and paddings seem to be all over the place [1]. At least Gnome gets that part right. [1] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications

"This page assumes the status quo as of Plasma 5.7". Plasma is now on version 5.20 so the page you linked has some pretty old examples. The KDE folks are working pretty diligently to clean stuff like this up as they find it. Nate Graham's weekly blog documents this and other updates to the project.

https://pointieststick.com/

I personally like KDE and it's Breeze Dark theme a lot.

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

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Post by dleslie »

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

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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.

KDE or MATE, really.

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

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Post by efreak »

simon04 wrote: post #158
alpaca128 wrote: post #119

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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…

Ctrl+L focuses the address bar. No need to lift your fingers from the keyboard.

Or alt+d or F6. These are mostly universal.

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

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Post by pseudalopex »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #161
carlosrg wrote: post #151

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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.

That's not cut-and-paste. That's copy and some weird modified paste that, as far as I'm aware, doesn't exist anywhere else. Why completely break the existing convention?

macOS came first.

Other file managers don't really cut and paste. They have a weird modified cut that doesn't exist anywhere else.

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