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

Post by LeoPanthera » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:44 AM UTC

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…

Post by wruza » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:46 AM UTC

samatman wrote: post #360

ibly31 wrote: post #352

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does "focus follows mouse" work? If I'm understanding; your desktop is a collection of various sizes windows, maybe overlapping and stacking. If your mouse goes off the side of the one you're focusing, it will auto focus the one you're now hovering over. Won't this lead to accidents where you'll have a larger window suddenly gain focus, with no way to see the old one and re-focus it? Seems easy to make a mistake.…

Nope, what you're describing is a mistake in focus-follows-mouse, one which has been made more than once. In real, XWin-style focus-follows-mouse, the window you mouse over gets the focus, but , isn't pulled to the front. If you click, it gets the front and the focus. I use Moom, a semi-tile snap-style window wrangler, and a widescreen with three panels. What I want to do is just slide the cursor over and start typin…

Post by wruza » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:51 AM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #452

hedora wrote: post #29

This 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…

Instead of fixing old problems that the entire community agrees with wild consensus, they insist on spending time creating new problems. Perhaps we should stop whining and start fixing them. And then if the developers refuse to accept things people have been wanting for well over a decade then we can fork it and simply abandon them like any other archaic unusable thing of the past. We've all asked very politely long…

Post by legulere » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 5:55 AM UTC

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…

Post by websap » Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 6:04 AM UTC