GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...
Clearly this isn't an issue that people care about enough to do anything about, otherwise someone would have gone and implemented it.
Gnome 40
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It’s been like this since Gnome 3 was released in 2011. This is why I've always been confused by people who say Linux has an “ugly, inconsistent, unprofessional” UI - to me this looks and feels better than Windows.
Gnome is just one part of the story - the gnome shell was always decent looking and had good themes. But the apps and the ecosystem really is ugly, messy and inconsistent. For example if you look at the controls you got with GTK out of the box in GTK3 era (when I last tried to build something with it) I remember huge paddings, unintuitive UX (the GTK file picker is the worst I've used) and poor layout controls. Go ch…
Text rendering still looks awful, and it's only getting worse with newer displays at higher resolutions that use scaling.
Re: Gnome 40
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And when Gtk4 inevitably happens, or the gnome-shell toolkit is changed again, breaking about all the gnome-shell extensions, we'll just call it Gnome X.
Gtk4 already happened. Not sure if Gnome apps to it, however, but I'm pretty sure they'll just break extensions as they've always done. Most use internal APIs AFAIK after all, so they're designed to break.
I think GTK4 is in Gnome 40 Weather App.
Re: Gnome 40
#134I was a bit sceptical, but I have to say that the horizontal workspaces work pretty well. Working with GNOME 40 is both efficient and aesthetically pleasing. And as a side note performance is much better too on Fedora 34.
> the horizontal workspaces work pretty well Like on all the other desktops?
My concern was more about the animations switching workspaces being too jarring, but they are pretty smooth.
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Cantarell. Some consider that font a crime against humanity, on the level of MS Comic Sans or Papyrus. Canonical, could you please make the Ubuntu font really-SIL-free, so that Cantarell can be taken behind the barn and shot? Pretty please?
God yes. I don't know why I hate it so much, but I do. Switching to Apple's San Francisco font is one of the first things I do.
I used to do the same but even the San Francisco wouldn't look very good. I am now using Inter [1] as my system and browser font and it looks great.
Re: Gnome 40
#136Can they add a toggle that switches between these "fat" top window bars and "skinny" top window bars? Basically strip out about 90% of the extra padding from buttons and bars and compress the UI down to what OS 10.6/7/8 use. Otherwise I always have to tack on a theme just to fix this one issue.
Realistically, how many people are using Gnome on touch screen displays? Personally I always use it on a laptop so 90% of their touch screen optimizations, like bloated bars, end up wasting screen real estate.
Re: Gnome 40
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> and hints at backwards compatibility. To me it communicates no commitment to backwards compatibility, i.e. no semantic versioning. This might be enforceable if one is Apple, but doesn't sound good for an open-source platform.
What would semantic versioning for a UI even mean? What's the API promise?
It could mean that all applications still run unmodified and can show all the dialog boxes they used to.
That may not sound like much of a promise, but it is. Applications written for GNOME 2.x won't run under 3.x.
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Clearly this isn't an issue that people care about enough to do anything about, otherwise someone would have gone and implemented it.
“Stop being poor” kind of an argument
Not at all? This is FOSS. If this was a critical issue that blocked people from using the software, or aggravated a developer enough, then someone would go fix it or be paid to fix it.
Developers don't have an obligation to implement every feature request. Clearly this is a nothingburger
Re: Gnome 40
#140I just want to mention, if you feel there's some excessive padding and it's a waste of space (especially vertically), I suggest you take a look at a compact theme at GNOME Look. Currently, not all themes work properly with GTK 4, but they will eventually get there. Personally, I use the Mojave-gtk-theme. It wastes no space and is beautifully designed. [edited for grammar]
yeah, that is one of the things I do after a fresh install. I am using Nextwaita from gnome-looks. It changes very little from the vanilla gnome, except for a slighter grey color scheme and less padding.