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- "Welcome to the new GNOME car. It's totally free!". - "Looks great. But there are no mirrors. Isn't that dangerous?" - "Yeah, but that's not a bug, it's a m

- "Welcome to the new GNOME car. It's totally free!". - "Looks great. But there are no mirrors. Isn't that dangerous?" - "Yeah, but that's not a bug, it's a missing feature. Besides, we don't like mirrors because in all cars they need to be cleaned all the time." - "Really? Apparently the KDE cars also have mirrors but different technology, and they don't need to be cleaned at all. Also, what's the difference between a bug or missing feature if a lot of people complain about it?" - "Oh yeah. But honestly we really don't like that people have to clean their mirrors, so we prefer not to have them."

rob74 6y ago
Looks like we disagree on what's a bug and what's a feature in a file picker. But the mirrors on a car are mandated by law, so the equivalent for that would be a missing Cancel button (which forces you to always open a file). If I had to pick a car part equivalent to the file thumbnails, it would probably be seat heating or a built-in navigation system - it's nice to have (for some, others never use it), but you can use the car without problems if it's broken or not installed. I'm not saying that it's not a nice feature to have, but it's also definitely non-trivial - it's not only thumbnails for images, if you do that people will also demand thumbnails for videos (including, of course, all ancient formats), PDF files, Word/Excel/PowerPoint documents, HTML pages etc. etc. etc.