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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 andrewmackrodt »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Thanks for updating your answer with your diff. Arch really looks great in how easy it was to try that. I'm running Ubuntu and have experience compiling custom kernels so this should be slightly easier to try, thanks once again for such a great reply.

Ultimately, I would prefer that this kind of feature is configurable in userland. Wayland's documentation page mentions that "Data from touchpads showed that almost all palm events during tying on a Lenovo T440 happened in the left-most and right-most 5% of the touchpad. The T440 series has one of the largest touchpads", and this may have been true several years ago, but it's quite common now to have larger and wider form-factor touchpads.

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

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Post by Rompect »

j1elo wrote: post #560
benlivengood wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GUIs should effectively be finite state machines and people expect them to operate that way. People understand latency and get used to it; it happened on mainframes and other terminal applications and people memorize the state machine and can tab and type through an interface at high throughput anyway. One of the most frustrating experiences is related to the OP; reflow in browsers as new elements load making it impo…

The reflow issues as incredible in the Twitter mobile web, at least for me on Firefox for Android. When you go back from seeing a tweet's replies to the main timeline, it might take up to 5 seconds (or even more) to load some UI elements and reach a steady state. It even scrolls to a different point than where you were before!

Twitter Mobile is hands down the worst mobile website that I know. I always use nitter.net if I want to view something on mobile. Opening the browser and manually rewriting the link is more handy that clicking on it (e.g. in reddit). That should tell you something.

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

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Post by dghf »

m463 wrote: post #436
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…

There's a quote that I think of in situations like this: "Be the change you want to see in the world" - ghandi That said, you can't do that with windows or macosx. Now capitalism works, so apple and microsoft apply the money they make to hard/unsexy things like sleep-wake bug fixes and APIs and sane defaults. But they also bake advertising into their codebase and leech data home to the mothership and prevent you from…

> There's a quote that I think of in situations like this:

> "Be the change you want to see in the world" - ghandi

Gandhi (spelled thus) never said that. What he did say (in an article about first-aid treatments for snakebites, weirdly enough), was this:

> We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

-- The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandi, vol. 13, p. 241 (http://www.gandhiashramsevagram.org/gandhi-literature/mahatm...)

Not quite as snappy, admittedly.

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

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Post by andrewmackrodt »

Yaggo wrote: post #602
andrewmackrodt wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love Linux desktop but miss these creature comforts too. For me, my biggest input issue is the lack of customisation around trackpad deadzones, i.e. the 15% or so deadzone on the left and right of the trackpad. My trackpad is exactly in the center of my laptop but my palm is usually offset slightly to the left. This means my first interaction with the trackpad often happens in this deadzone area on the left-hand si…

> I love Linux desktop Which "Linux" desktop are you referring to?

I answered generically because my comment was about a libinput "issue" which affects all distributions and desktop environments. (Queue 2021 is the year of linux desktop).

Personally, I see this change as a regression from the highly configurable synaptics driver.

As you've asked, distribution wise I typically run an Ubuntu LTS with Gnome 3 but rolling releases such as Manjaro and lightweight DE like XFCE are also very nice.

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

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Post by theshrike79 »

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

KDE, to me, looks like someone designed it to be a touch interface.

Everything is so LARGE and padding between elements is YUGE. The tech is cool and everything seems to work fine, but something about the UI just grates me.

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

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Post by WhoCaresLies »

WhoCaresLies wrote: post #565

you know they are linux screenshots, because font rendering is so bad no wonder people don't stay and please stop with the oversexualized kids anime pictures, i'm worried

stop downvoting the useful feedback

font rendering on linux is bad since forever

https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/

pedo weeboos are infecting the internet with their over sexualized anime kid pics

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

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Post by Rompect »

mard wrote: post #581
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).

The lack of typeahead in GtkFileChooser is my biggest annoyance that I've ever come across. Ever since I started using computers nearly 25 years ago I used typeahead to navigate through directories and I can't imagine doing it otherwise. The idea of removing typeahead is anti-human to me, I couldn't adapt even though I really tried to.

So true. That is the biggest concern that I have with Linux overall.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #464
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…

> the maintainer was not happy with my approach This is the absolute CORE of the problem with open-source software. Someone becomes the "maintainer" of a project, often through no skill of their own (they just showed up at the right time), which effectively makes them BDFL with infinite veto power. Hard-forks of popular projects are politically unpopular (for good reason), so that isn't an option. Instead, the whole…

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

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Post by xeyownt »

rob74 wrote: post #568
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…

First, I fully agree: this is not a bug, it's a missing feature. Second, I may be a minority here, but I actually don't mind this feature missing at all. I however do (or did) mind Windows putting its "thumbs.db" files all over the place, so that's the first thing I deactivate when installing it (along with enabling "show hidden files" and "show extension for known file types").

- "Welcome to the new GNOME car. It's totally free!".

- "Looks great. But there are no mirrors. Isn't that dangerous?"

- "Yeah, but that's not a bug, it's a missing feature. Besides, we don't like mirrors because in all cars they need to be cleaned all the time."

- "Really? Apparently the KDE cars also have mirrors but different technology, and they don't need to be cleaned at all. Also, what's the difference between a bug or missing feature if a lot of people complain about it?"

- "Oh yeah. But honestly we really don't like that people have to clean their mirrors, so we prefer not to have them."

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

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Post by MisterTea »

A blog spam contains over 1,000 words criticizing a >10,000 word bug report yet does nothing to help. No code was written. No progress was made. Instead we are treated to a story about toilets and demands to complicate a rube goldberg user interface.
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