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File picker meme
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#12At least we don't have to see ads.
I’ll take good faith bugs and missing features over the pathological psycho warfare in closed software any day of the week.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that collaboration is always desirable, and that common standards are beneficial to everyone. But the GTK filepicker is simply an embarrassment, there's no other word for it. For all of the effort that has been spent on everything else Gnome-related, adding thumbnails to the filepicker would have been an extremely easy win. The current implentation is at Win 3.x levels of design and experience.
I've always wondered why file picker has to be so tightly integrated into GUI toolkit. Separate program outputting the selected path(s) sounds like much nicer design, and makes it easier to implement alternative file pickers.
I believe that is the purpose of the xdg portals specification.
https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/portal-docs.htm...
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always wondered why file picker has to be so tightly integrated into GUI toolkit. Separate program outputting the selected path(s) sounds like much nicer design, and makes it easier to implement alternative file pickers.
I believe that is the purpose of the xdg portals specification. https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/portal-docs.htm...
Not really
>The FileChooser portal allows sandboxed applications to ask the user for access to files outside the sandbox. The portal backend will present the user with a file chooser dialog.
In addition it being a dbus api for communicating outside a sandbox
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#16Even Serenity OS has a feature complete file picker. Embarrassing.
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#18This is by far the biggest obstacle to mass adoption.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes collaboration goes nowhere: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217
>Enough spam for today. Locking the issue. Locked as expected. But really? Well-written written arguments from users and developers is considered spam?
Unfortunately GNOME development team has been more interested in hypothetical users than real users.
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#20Gnome's UI really does suck.
Windows File Explorer sucks, too, just not nearly as bad. (Though I'd put it FAR ahead of the Mac's counter-intuitive and ill-named Finder.)
It's the 21st century - WHY, OH, WHY do we still have file managers that provide NO CLUE as to the size and number of files in a directory? Why are all presentations still list or grid-based? Why does it take so long to find files? Can't we save the hashes from the last search and update them periodically when the machine is idle?
I'll venture a guess: Because "real programmers" don't use GUIs for file manipulation, so they JUST DON'T CARE about making the most important UI next to the browser any better.