Windos 10 can display thumbnails too! You have to find the settings dialog of something called One Drive, disable something called "Files On Demand service" and restart the PC.
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
#262Somebody in Gnome did an awesome thing and I want to know who it was: If I open my laptop after being logged in, I can just start typing my password and the login manager does the right thing: "Hey, he's probably typing a password. Let's throw it into the password widget and see what happens..." I'm on an XPS running Ubuntu 20.04. Who implemented that feature? It's a great ergonomic feature and improves the UX of log…
KDE does the same and I love it too. Windows doesn’t, which always trips me up every time I have to use it.
Hm, I wonder who did it first.
Would love to know more about both cases.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#263You 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 I implemented it a while ago for Xorg, which is outdated now, and also the maintainer w…
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've never noticed such issue, quick search shows that one has to start on edge and movement in vertical direction [1]. Vanilla edges are 8% of the width on each side [2]. There was a proposal to add configuration option [3], rejected — they've tried this route before, it was impossible to test.
Fortunately source is there and it is easy to patch (try to set 0%). That's quite common, for example there are several patched libinput on AUR [5].
Does your hardware has firmware palm detection mechanism? Current bug [6] (Palm exclusion zones are not worth it on some hardware).
[1] https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/palm-det...
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/blob/f2ba...
[3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/19...
[4] http://who-t.blogspot.com/2016/04/why-libinput-doesnt-have-l...
[5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=libinput
[6] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/43...
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Firefox on KDE uses the GTK filepicker. No thumbnails. Not true. Firefox on current Arch/Plasma works fine with the KDE filepicker.
It's completely true on Kubuntu 18.04. Ah ! now that I think about it I remembered a little trick https://askubuntu.com/questions/1100261/how-do-i-make-firefo... Have to try it again.
Kubuntu 18.04 is a bit too old, if I remember correctly this was implemented only recently.
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#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2366 ? It really bothers me as well.
> 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?
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#266Somebody in Gnome did an awesome thing and I want to know who it was: If I open my laptop after being logged in, I can just start typing my password and the login manager does the right thing: "Hey, he's probably typing a password. Let's throw it into the password widget and see what happens..." I'm on an XPS running Ubuntu 20.04. Who implemented that feature? It's a great ergonomic feature and improves the UX of log…
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 fact walk up and pwn my computer.
Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
#267Earlier 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…
Sounds like a libinput bug. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput/ https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/touchpad... I'd file a bug though, and see if whatever's wrong can be fixed for every trackpad of that same make/model.
Thanks for the links, particularly the second one. It looks like something I may have experimented with before but I'll try again. It could be that my touchpad does not support ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR (Dell XPS 2-in-1 2019).
My "issue" is described as expected behaviour in this documentation: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/palm-det... (the "A" event).
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s a save panel? You mean a save dialog? Note that on windows there are at least 3 generations of save dialogs. Which one you see depends on which generation of the api is used. The most common one is the more modern which is basically just an explorer window. Dragging a file into an explorer window works that same regardless of whether it’s an open/save dialog or not. It’s a move/copy operation (depending on e.g…
Yes, a save panel is a save dialogue. It’s just Apple terminology. > I don’t quite get the point of dragging a file to a save dialog at all though? On macOS (since forever) and iOS (since 11), there is a heavy focus on drag. You should be able to drag anything from any app to any other app and something should happen. This is facilitated both by system-level frameworks (so that all apps can gain correct drag-handling…
I love this comment. One of the reasons I prefer using MacOS as my daily driver even though I have a lot of complaints.
Sadly, due to the ever-increasing number of non-Cocoa apps (primarily Electron ones), these features are getting the boot.
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a design decision if both sides have competing benefits and you choose one. In this case it's a planning / engineering decision: other work is prioritised higher than implementing the previews.
If it was just that then the blog author and the combined technical intelligentsia of Hacker News could jump in and make it happen by implementing it.
I'm not sure why you say that. Bugzilla had a partial patch with some outstanding issues needing polish. Nobody rejected it, but nobody is working on it anymore. You're welcome to take https://github.com/Dudemanguy/gtk/pull/1 and continue the work in a gtk PR on gitlab.
You can jump in and implement it. The last few comments are basically "here's a patch that works", "ok, open a PR then" (and no follow up)