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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
#22no desktop, no system tray icons.. gnome is a joke
Tools and features have ergonomics and affordances that suggest a certain way of using them, and desktop filling just seems to encourage people to make a massive mess. Even when I was a Windows user, desktop icons were the first thing to go. Not having quick access to a dumping ground meant that I had to go out of my way to make a mess.
As for a lack of system tray icons, the practical upshot is that my system bar isn't littered with multiple special snowflake applications, each with their own unique icon art style and mismatching proportions.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#23GNOME is in general terrible for everything with image related work (last tested on Ubuntu 20.04). In the past I thought finder on macOS is terrible (it's still the worst piece of macOS and I don't like it) but GNOME files aka Nautilus tops it for sure (also because of space wasting issues).
XFCE and KDE both do a better job than GNOME in this regard. And also Windows Explorer was and is much much better in this area.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#24Users like these are why maintainers of open source software are burning out.
If people are going to make crappy half-baked software that doesn't work, they need to be upfront about it so people stop expecting it to do its job. If they're not going to do this, people are right to expect a basic level of quality and to complain when they don't get it.
It also doesn't help that theres an utter legion of Linux users who deny that the ecosystem has any deficiencies at all compared to windows and macOS. It's so misleading.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#25In 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.
Yes, I want to be able to look at more than one thing at a time.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#26> Okay. Well, how much money should I pay for someone to fix this then? I’m legit offering a bounty here.
How much are you willing to offer?
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#27There's more serious reasons this file picker is broken.
Here's a trivial to reproduce and obvious issue that's been there for several years now:
1. Open a directory that loads slowly (e.g. one with thousands of files on a smb3 mount)
2. While the list is loading, select a file (but do not open it)
3. Wait for the whole list to load
Once the list finishes loading, the file on the very top of the list gets automatically selected (discarding your selection).
Thus, if you select a file and click open, in the time between you select and click open, the selection can auto-change and you'll end up opening something else than what you've selected.
It is this bad.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#28In 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.
Yes, I want to be able to look at more than one thing at a time.
Then you need a window manager, not a desktop.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#29This 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 point, you can finally start typing the name of the file you want to save.
The same problem occurs if the file chooser happens to already be in the directory where you want to save the file.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#30The Xfce file manager, Thunar, has thumbnails. For casual use at least, it is very similar to the Gnome file manager.
Interestingly, Thunar has had a similar pet peeve: it could not remember per-directory view settings (e.g. sorting order). This was finally fixed a couple months ago, 13 years after the original bug was filed (#3521).