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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 Chyzwar »

stretchcat wrote: post #265
baybal2 wrote: post #255

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> Free software development is not a democracy, and does not get driven by polls. Features and bugs are introduced by those who show up, within a community that works towards a shared goal. And it is exactly to let themselves yell that, they work hard to alienate few normal devs left in the project. I understood now that Gnome 3.0 was from the start Redhat's fully intentional attempt to appropriate the project, and i…

This sure seems accurate to me, from what I've personally observed, but I don't understand what motive they might have. What's the point of controlling popular software by making everybody hate it?

A lot of people like it. Just because there are old timers that cannot move past gnome 2 it do not mean that Gnome 3 is bad. It faster and more polished that KDE. Workspace management and screen real estate is supierior to anything I used.

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Post by gsich »

pseudalopex wrote: post #435
heavyset_go wrote: post #366

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If you don't like the defaults, there are thousands of 3rd party themes that are directly listed and installable from KDE's theme preference pane.

Do any of them solve the problem?

No.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

barrkel wrote: post #245

This is why I use bash for almost all filesystem operations across all desktop operating systems. I don't deal with image files on disk, mind. I use various media databases to handle those (and audio and video) with tagging, timestamps, previews, thumbnails etc. in a dedicated UI.

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

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Post by db48x »

wander_homer wrote: post #494
db48x wrote: post #459

The author thinks that anyone using a file picker with no preview thumbnails is doing it wrong. I think that anyone using a file picker is doing it wrong. I frequently open files in projects that have tens of thousands of files scattered across thousands of directories. Any process for opening a file that involved navigating that directory hierarchy by clicking with a mouse would waste an enormous amount of time.

Well, for one using a file picker doesn't imply mouse usage and secondly, how would you do something like uploading a pdf or picture in your web browser?

I don't do that in my web browser. Instead I type a command in a shell that adds the file to a git repository, commits it, and syncs the repository with my web server.

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

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Post by beci »

sergeykish wrote: post #325
andrewmackrodt wrote: post #300

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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…

Sounds extremely strange. You should fill an issue. My Dell Latitude E7440 follows description and I believe same is true for most of the users. I have to start movement at least diagonally, once it catches further direction does not matter. It produces no output when running `libinput debug-events`. I've recompiled my version with 0% just to check. /* palm edges are 8% of the width on each side */ - mm.x = min(8, wi…

Wow, I didn't know how easy to do these things in arch. You made my day!

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Post by ziotom78 »

efaref wrote: post #497
ziotom78 wrote: post #454

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I have found a (cumbersome) solution to this using Xfce. Its Thunar file manager does implement type-ahead, so whenever I need to open a file that is saved in some deeply-nested folder, I open Thunar (using a custom shortcut, Ctrl+Alt+E) and quickly navigate to the file using type-ahead and press Ctr+L to copy its full path to the clipboard, then I switch to my app and paste the address. For complex paths, I found th…

Using TFA's analogy, that's a workaround where you use the neighbour's toilet.

Exactly!!! :-)

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Post by trissylegs »

johannes1234321 wrote: post #52

Gnome uses Gtk; Gtk is the Gimp Toolkit. It was created for an image editing program. In a way funny that their file picker is missing such an feature one would expect in an image editing program these days. (From scrolling offer the discussion I can in parts see the architectural constraints they have and can image they have other priorities ...)

If you notice the dependcies: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gimp/

GIMP still runs GTK 2. The version from ~10 years ago.

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

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Post by oefrha »

eitland wrote: post #472
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…

> And you will also find such examples for MacOSX or Windows. If anyone wonders, here are three from Mac last I used it: - fn took the place of ctrl on the laptop (but not the full keyboard). Unlike on Dell and Lenovo who also has this problem it could not be remapped neither at boot nor in the OS. - CMD - tab forced me to think ahead of time if I want to change to the last application or the last window of the same…

> CMD - tab forced me to think ahead of time if I want to change to the last application or the last window of the same application. I.e. switching between two Safari instances takes a different key combination than switching between Safari and IntelliJ.

That’s a feature, not a bug. I personally hate having to tab through a million browser windows to find the application I need, or having to tab through unrelated applications when looking for a browser window, which is what I have to put up with when using Windows.

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Post by mmplxx »

branon wrote: post #73
enriquto wrote: post #13

In this time and age, do we really need "desktops"? If you only need a full-screen terminal and a full-screen browser (as is the case for many people), the whole desktop thing is unnecessary clutter.

A desktop for most people is a crutch (plunger) for their disorganized computer (clogged toilet). I think the suggestion that desktops aren't necessary is a good one. Several years ago, I started turning desktop icons off (both GNOME and Windows make this easy) and it really helped my organization, as I was then forced to competently organize files into Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Videos directories instead of vo…

The OP is talking about desktop environments, not the desktop with your wallpaper.

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Post by uncledave »

samatman wrote: post #266
uncledave wrote: post #137

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The scary thing is we’ve moved on from there on other platforms because those problems were solved forever ago. I sit at my Mac desktop, press any key on my keyboard to wake the machine or tap the touchpad and I’m logged in. Being impressed with the very small changes is a symptom that there are lots of small problems. The most important change for me is I rarely if ever have to enter a password now while at the same…

...did you skip the part where you're wearing an Apple Watch? Because when the watch isn't on my wrist, I have to either enter my password or hit TouchID, waking up the computer gets me to the password dialog box. Which, to be fair, I can start typing the password directly because the cursor is in the correct place. And this is what you would want, if waking it up meant no authentication then J Random Badguy could in…

Yes I did skip that bit. The point is the total integration which the Linux desktop will never reach. Apple (and Microsoft) moved on from the simple cases.

TouchID is a second place to that. My T495s has the sensor to do that but it doesn’t work on Linux. Again a typical Linux desktop outcome.

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