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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 im

by agurk 6y ago

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 another issue affecting his desktop rather than outright missing functionality. Or could this be a Debian applied patch? I couldn't find any details after a quick google.

ubercow13 6y ago
Can you provide a screenshot?
- agurk 6y ago
  If you read the article more closely than I did originally there is an example of what I see in their original article [0]. The thumbnail is part of the list view and they want to see a thumbnail without the other file details. [0] https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome2.png https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome2.png
  - fvdessen 6y ago
    We want to see all the thumbnails at once, not just the selected one.
    - agurk 6y ago
      The screenshot from the article is very low resolution, so it's quite hard to see if you don't know what you're looking for, but it does have a unique thumbnail against each filename. The underlying complaint is that people want this to be bigger.
  - ubercow13 6y ago
    Yes, they are so small that they are completely useless. What is needed is a widget like the one from Windows at the top of the article that actually shows all the thumbnails at a decent size so you can use them to actually locate the right image.
agurk 6y ago
After a downvote encouraged me to re-read the article more carefully it seems the OP wants to be able to see only the thumbnail (and maybe the filename) - not a thumbnail that is part of the list view with further details. Older builds of Gnome only seemed to use the generic icon for the file type, so it does sound like there has been progress here - if not enough to satisfy the OP.
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by agurk 6y ago

ubercow13 6y ago

Can you provide a screenshot?

agurk 6y ago
If you read the article more closely than I did originally there is an example of what I see in their original article [0]. The thumbnail is part of the list view and they want to see a thumbnail without the other file details. [0] https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome2.png https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome2.png
- fvdessen 6y ago
  We want to see all the thumbnails at once, not just the selected one.
  - agurk 6y ago
    The screenshot from the article is very low resolution, so it's quite hard to see if you don't know what you're looking for, but it does have a unique thumbnail against each filename. The underlying complaint is that people want this to be bigger.
- ubercow13 6y ago
  Yes, they are so small that they are completely useless. What is needed is a widget like the one from Windows at the top of the article that actually shows all the thumbnails at a decent size so you can use them to actually locate the right image.

agurk 6y ago

After a downvote encouraged me to re-read the article more carefully it seems the OP wants to be able to see only the thumbnail (and maybe the filename) - not a thumbnail that is part of the list view with further details. Older builds of Gnome only seemed to use the generic icon for the file type, so it does sound like there has been progress here - if not enough to satisfy the OP.

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