nikodunkJul 26, 2023

Rethinking Window Management on GNOME – Space and Meaning

https://lemmy.ml/post/2468768

Rethinking Window Management on GNOME – Space and Meaning - Lemmy

Show threadlynnyJul 26, 2023

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.

Show threadUlrikHD

putting thumbnails in the file selection dialog

Could you elaborate what you by this?

Jul 26, 2023 at 4:56pmWeb
Show threadcerementJul 26, 2023
  • 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
Show threadRenardDesMersJul 26, 2023
They fixed that gamingonlinux.com/…/gnome-44-is-out-now-finally-a…
GNOME 44 is out now finally adding thumbnails to the file picker

One thing I genuinely hated about GNOME has finally been solved with the GNOME 44 release. It includes some big improvements and new features.

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Show threadlynnyJul 26, 2023

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.

bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154

Bug 141154 – Add an "icon view with thumbnails" mode (like Nautilus)