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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 lmz »

opencl wrote: post #34
sampo wrote: post #10

The Xfce file manager, Thunar, has thumbnails. For casual use at least, it is very similar to the Gnome file manager.

The post isn't actually about GNOME's file manager (which does have thumbnails), it's about the GTK file picker which is the same in any DE.

And without reading the bug, the issue with adding thumbnail support to that one is probably because thumbnails need to be cached to be fast, and it would be odd for a filepicker to be creating its own cache files (since it can't make any assumptions about the system it runs on).

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

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Post by colonwqbang »

sampo wrote: post #10

The Xfce file manager, Thunar, has thumbnails. For casual use at least, it is very similar to the Gnome file manager.

Thunar is great, however it does no good here. Your various programs like GIMP will always use the Gnome/GTK file picker because that's what they've been programmed to do. Or, if not based on GTK they will use whatever other file picker their toolkit provided.

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

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Post by ht85 »

snvzz wrote: post #27

There'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 automatical…

Let's do another... Open any directory with 3+ items. As first item is highlighted, quickly hit , , . The 3rd item opens...

There is a lag when hitting and the last is processed out of order :/

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

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Post by ubercow13 »

agurk wrote: post #37

So I just checked on my install (Gnome 3.38.2, Debian testing) and all the GTKFileChooser windows I could find had the thumbnails representing the underlying images. Interestingly I checked a few apps I have installed through Flatpak, and they generally didn't have thumbnails for the same dialogues, although sometimes did for the "recents". Unless this has been recently added as a feature, it sounds more like he has…

Can you provide a screenshot?

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

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Post by enriquto »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #20
enriquto wrote: post #13

In 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.

Terminals are probably never again going to be the primary computing interface for most people.

> Terminals are probably never again going to be the primary computing interface for most people.

So what? Neither are desktops! The question is that the total number of terminal users is certainly increasing year after year.

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

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Post by andrewmackrodt »

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…

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 side of the trackpad, so no input gets registered until I lift my finger and "enter" it more towards the center.

There are a huge variety of laptops with different size trackpads, different positions, varying levels of palm rejection etc but there's zero customisability around this seemingly simple behaviour.

My Windows dualboot has no such issue and macOS of course (using a MacBook) works fantastically without this limitations.

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

johnchristopher wrote: post #39

> One might also say "Just use KDE!" Yeah, I guess I could use KDE, just like I use the downstairs toilet instead of the other ones. Yeah but when you go to the downstairs toilet you can't bring in your favourite newspaper because the paper its printed on isn't compatible with the light bulb and you can't read it. Firefox on KDE uses the GTK filepicker. No thumbnails.

> Firefox on KDE uses the GTK filepicker. No thumbnails.

Not if you set the GTK_USE_PORTAL environment variable.

    $ GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 firefox
The above will make Firefox use the KDE filepicker.
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