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Note that showing the thumbnails would likely be simple enough. The whole desktop system needs a system for generating and maintaining those thumbnails too. Tho
by alkonaut 6y ago
Note that showing the thumbnails would likely be simple enough. The whole desktop system needs a system for generating and maintaining those thumbnails too. Those systems are always complex and messy (remember thumbs.db?)
A dialog that opens every file in the directory to read the image and show it, won’t be very popular.
So implementing this feature isn’t a change to a dialog but an implementation of something akin to the windows thumbnail cache
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_thumbnail_cache https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_thumbnail_cache
- ATsch 6y agoNautilus does already have such a cache though. But there is little to no code sharing between nautilus and the gtk file picker, which I think is the actual problem here.
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- alkonaut 6y agoThat the file save dialog isn't based on the explorer tool is precisely why a windows file save dialog has e.g. thumbnails "for free" while the gtk file picker doesn't. It very clearly explains why you want to choose to base every file listing tool on the single file navigation tool. Any effort that goes into one is reflected in the other. If that means a surprising UX at times - that's probably worth it.