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Ah, wait until you experience the Nautilus file picker. Want to attach an image? Here's a list of all your photos in this folder, but the preview is 100x50, hav

Ah, wait until you experience the Nautilus file picker. Want to attach an image? Here's a list of all your photos in this folder, but the preview is 100x50, have fun.

branon 5y ago
"No thumbnails in the file picker" is a longstanding meme, as I understand it. Somewhere there's a >decade-old bug report (feature request?) about it. I don't mind it personally as I happen to be aware enough to be able to locate most files without thumbnail previews. But it would lessen the cognitive load of using GNOME if they had proper thumbnail views. Maybe when they switch everything to GTK4. One can hope.
- Beltalowda 5y ago
  It's not just an old bug/feature request, there are three working patches that were posted there over the years, all of which have just been ignored. There is a little write-up here: https://lobste.rs/s/ky5yop/gnome_has_no_thumbnails_file_picker_my#c_4sbrjl https://lobste.rs/s/ky5yop/gnome_has_no_thumbnails_file_pick...
dylan-m 5y ago
The file picker isn't Nautilus; it's GTK. It's all library code, usually running in the same application. One nice effect of applications moving to FileChooserNative (which they need to do if they want to be sandboxed nicely) is that for newer applications we can have that file chooser in a separate application (with broader permissions). But even so, right now it's just the GTK file chooser in a separate application. In the future, Nautilus will be able to provide the file chooser, but that future hasn't arrived quite yet. Someone needs to build a file chooser mode for Nautilus, and someone needs to add a little more plumbing to xdg-desktop-portal so it knows how to deal with an application like Nautilus providing a default file chooser. But it will be much better, in part because the preview code will all be in one place :)
- simion314 5y ago
  Maybe then you can use the KDE File picker on all your apps and not be forced to use the shitty GTK2/GTK3 one. I also dislike the GTK file picker limited sorting options(maybe was improved recently, I prefer sorting to be case insensitive)
sph 5y ago
This will supposedly be worked on in GNOME 43, fixing the file picker should now be possible, as they've completed the separation of GTK and GNOME UI code. The new GNOME file picker portal will be able to leverage full fat Nautilus to render itself. And yes, Nautilus has some long awaited UI improvements planned for that release.

Ah, wait until you experience the Nautilus file picker. Want to attach an image? Here's a list of all your photos in this folder, but the preview is 100x50, have fun.

branon 5y ago

"No thumbnails in the file picker" is a longstanding meme, as I understand it. Somewhere there's a >decade-old bug report (feature request?) about it. I don't mind it personally as I happen to be aware enough to be able to locate most files without thumbnail previews. But it would lessen the cognitive load of using GNOME if they had proper thumbnail views. Maybe when they switch everything to GTK4. One can hope.

Beltalowda 5y ago
It's not just an old bug/feature request, there are three working patches that were posted there over the years, all of which have just been ignored. There is a little write-up here: https://lobste.rs/s/ky5yop/gnome_has_no_thumbnails_file_picker_my#c_4sbrjl https://lobste.rs/s/ky5yop/gnome_has_no_thumbnails_file_pick...

dylan-m 5y ago

The file picker isn't Nautilus; it's GTK. It's all library code, usually running in the same application. One nice effect of applications moving to FileChooserNative (which they need to do if they want to be sandboxed nicely) is that for newer applications we can have that file chooser in a separate application (with broader permissions). But even so, right now it's just the GTK file chooser in a separate application. In the future, Nautilus will be able to provide the file chooser, but that future hasn't arrived quite yet. Someone needs to build a file chooser mode for Nautilus, and someone needs to add a little more plumbing to xdg-desktop-portal so it knows how to deal with an application like Nautilus providing a default file chooser. But it will be much better, in part because the preview code will all be in one place :)

simion314 5y ago
Maybe then you can use the KDE File picker on all your apps and not be forced to use the shitty GTK2/GTK3 one. I also dislike the GTK file picker limited sorting options(maybe was improved recently, I prefer sorting to be case insensitive)

sph 5y ago

This will supposedly be worked on in GNOME 43, fixing the file picker should now be possible, as they've completed the separation of GTK and GNOME UI code. The new GNOME file picker portal will be able to leverage full fat Nautilus to render itself. And yes, Nautilus has some long awaited UI improvements planned for that release.