▲ 1 ▼ Rethinking Window Management on GNOME – Space and Meaning (blogs.gnome.org) submitted 3 years ago by nikodunk@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml 16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] lynny@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Are they going to rethink putting thumbnails in the file selection dialog or many of their other insane decisions? Gnome seems like they want to take the Apple approach to UI design without the attention to detail that Apple's UX has. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] UlrikHD@programming.dev 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) putting thumbnails in the file selection dialog Could you elaborate what you by this? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lynny@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago When you pick a file to upload or open from inside another application, the GTK/Gnome file picker does not allow you to have a thumbnail view of all the files. It is a meme in the Linux community at this point since there was a bug filed in 2004 asking for this feature, some even writing patches to make it work. Gnome devs refuse to change how the file picker works however. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154 permalink fedilink source parent [–] cerement@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) in the file manager, you can see thumbnails of images and videos in the file picker (ie. “Open File” dialog box), you only see the filetype icon permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago They fixed that https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/gnome-44-is-out-now-finally-adding-thumbnails-to-the-file-picker/ permalink fedilink source parent [–] Virkkunen@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I always disliked Gnome because of this and also because it seems like the developers want to force their tastes and use cases to everyone else. You either learn to work their way, or move out. That's one of the many things I like about KDE, despite the devs having their preferred default way of doing things, they leave options for the users to decide in an easy way (i.e. having everything in the settings menu, without needing to download and install a separate program or manually editing config files) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UlrikHD@programming.dev 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) putting thumbnails in the file selection dialog Could you elaborate what you by this? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lynny@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago When you pick a file to upload or open from inside another application, the GTK/Gnome file picker does not allow you to have a thumbnail view of all the files. It is a meme in the Linux community at this point since there was a bug filed in 2004 asking for this feature, some even writing patches to make it work. Gnome devs refuse to change how the file picker works however. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154 permalink fedilink source parent [–] cerement@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) in the file manager, you can see thumbnails of images and videos in the file picker (ie. “Open File” dialog box), you only see the filetype icon permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago They fixed that https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/gnome-44-is-out-now-finally-adding-thumbnails-to-the-file-picker/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lynny@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago When you pick a file to upload or open from inside another application, the GTK/Gnome file picker does not allow you to have a thumbnail view of all the files. It is a meme in the Linux community at this point since there was a bug filed in 2004 asking for this feature, some even writing patches to make it work. Gnome devs refuse to change how the file picker works however. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) in the file manager, you can see thumbnails of images and videos in the file picker (ie. “Open File” dialog box), you only see the filetype icon permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago They fixed that https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/gnome-44-is-out-now-finally-adding-thumbnails-to-the-file-picker/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago They fixed that https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/gnome-44-is-out-now-finally-adding-thumbnails-to-the-file-picker/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Virkkunen@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago I always disliked Gnome because of this and also because it seems like the developers want to force their tastes and use cases to everyone else. You either learn to work their way, or move out. That's one of the many things I like about KDE, despite the devs having their preferred default way of doing things, they leave options for the users to decide in an easy way (i.e. having everything in the settings menu, without needing to download and install a separate program or manually editing config files) permalink fedilink source parent