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I'm a KDE user for a few years and I feel the exact opposite. Anyway, do you use the GTK file picker? Or have you swapped it out, somehow? That's my biggest pr

I'm a KDE user for a few years and I feel the exact opposite. Anyway, do you use the GTK file picker? Or have you swapped it out, somehow? That's my biggest problem with gnome. I'm frustrated every time it pops up. It has a long list of bugs that have been ignored for 5+ years. The biggest issue being that it only offers list view, no thumbnail view. So, doing anything with media files is extremely irritating. But, for some reason, so many projects still use it.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
My biggest pet peeve with Gnome is the attitude of the devs towards bug reports or criticism ("you're holding it wrong")[1] vs the KDE devs that acknowledge the bugs and work to fix them and add features the community is screaming for (after the infamous LTT video, KDE guys fixed the UX issue Linus complained). And don't get me started on the infamous Gnome filepicker. How are the thumbnails going? To which the response from the community has always been: "this isn't a problem since that's not how Gnome users are supposed to use Gnome" lol. Ok Gnome, you do you, just count me and everyone I know out. I find it a shame that such a toxic and user hostile project has become the default Linux DE on most distros today, while KDE keeps getting sidelined because people refuse to try it since they had a bad experience with it 10 years ago and seem to hold a grudge. I'm happy Valve chose KDE for the Steam Deck, though it is the most sane choice for it though. [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787
- irthomasthomas 4y ago
  Yeah I agree. I don't pay much attention, but I've seen a couple of occasions recently of some small issue, like a website thing being resolved in a couple of hours. No drama. Hope it continues.
sph 4y ago
> GTK file picker After a decade and a half, things might be moving on that front, if you're on GNOME. With the whole portal system desktop Linux has been adopting, GNOME will eventually use a Nautilus-lite widget, with thumbnails. There's a lot of Nautilus-related changes coming in GNOME 43 but I haven't heard any official news about it yet, so fingers crossed.
- jraph 4y ago
  That's good news for me as a KDE user who obviously run GTk apps and gets exposed to the GTK file picker too often. KDE made a very good job making GTK look good in Plasma with the Brise theme, the file picker is almost the only annoying thing (with the header bar that a bit too big, but that's not a big issue). I just open files from the terminal or CTRL+L paste the path most of the time though, which works fine on the GTK file picker too, but the terminal cannot be a solution for everybody.
- tremon 4y ago
  GNOME 43 Wow, I've been out of the loop for a long time. The last release I've been aware of was Gnome 3, and I use Linux daily.
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ChuckNorris89 4y ago

My biggest pet peeve with Gnome is the attitude of the devs towards bug reports or criticism ("you're holding it wrong")[1] vs the KDE devs that acknowledge the bugs and work to fix them and add features the community is screaming for (after the infamous LTT video, KDE guys fixed the UX issue Linus complained). And don't get me started on the infamous Gnome filepicker. How are the thumbnails going? To which the response from the community has always been: "this isn't a problem since that's not how Gnome users are supposed to use Gnome" lol. Ok Gnome, you do you, just count me and everyone I know out. I find it a shame that such a toxic and user hostile project has become the default Linux DE on most distros today, while KDE keeps getting sidelined because people refuse to try it since they had a bad experience with it 10 years ago and seem to hold a grudge. I'm happy Valve chose KDE for the Steam Deck, though it is the most sane choice for it though. [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787

irthomasthomas 4y ago
Yeah I agree. I don't pay much attention, but I've seen a couple of occasions recently of some small issue, like a website thing being resolved in a couple of hours. No drama. Hope it continues.

sph 4y ago

> GTK file picker After a decade and a half, things might be moving on that front, if you're on GNOME. With the whole portal system desktop Linux has been adopting, GNOME will eventually use a Nautilus-lite widget, with thumbnails. There's a lot of Nautilus-related changes coming in GNOME 43 but I haven't heard any official news about it yet, so fingers crossed.

jraph 4y ago
That's good news for me as a KDE user who obviously run GTk apps and gets exposed to the GTK file picker too often. KDE made a very good job making GTK look good in Plasma with the Brise theme, the file picker is almost the only annoying thing (with the header bar that a bit too big, but that's not a big issue). I just open files from the terminal or CTRL+L paste the path most of the time though, which works fine on the GTK file picker too, but the terminal cannot be a solution for everybody.
tremon 4y ago
GNOME 43 Wow, I've been out of the loop for a long time. The last release I've been aware of was Gnome 3, and I use Linux daily.
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