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It is in my favorite Desktop Environment I moved to XFCE when Canonical announced going back to Gnome 3 I wish they'd replace the Gnome filepicker too, that i

It is in my favorite Desktop Environment I moved to XFCE when Canonical announced going back to Gnome 3 I wish they'd replace the Gnome filepicker too, that is the worst piece of garbage i ever seen, you can't even manually type a path!!

severine 4y ago
https://feaneron.com/2022/12/14/the-burial-of-the-filechooser-meme/ https://feaneron.com/2022/12/14/the-burial-of-the-filechoose...
capableweb 4y ago
> I wish they'd replace the Gnome filepicker too, that is the worst piece of garbage i ever seen, you can't even manually type a path!! Don't have it in front of me right now, but can't you hit CTRL+L to bring up the "address bar" and manually write the path there? CTRL+L works in a lot of places to enter paths, from web browsers to local disk browsers.
- Kukumber 4y ago
  Issues i have with the path bar (from the top of my head) 1. it is not permanent, it disappears and never remember anything 2. it doesn't respect the paths (can't navigate) 3. i don't want to play a keyboard shortcuts game That's just one of the issues i have with the Gnome Filepicker, there is also the mounted disks that appears like it's a mobile UX, and many more, i have a document with everything that i hate about it, but i'm not on my PC to share it, it is an UX disaster I wish i could use Thunar as a filepicker, that would be perfect
  - capableweb 4y ago
    > 1. it is not permanent, it disappears and never remember anything What is it supposed to remember? Last path you opened? Seems to work fine for me in Firefox at least. First I tried uploading a image to imgur from my Downloads directory, then next time I wanted to select a picture it opened into the Downloads directory. Then I uploaded a image from my Pictures directory and next time it opened, it opened directly to the Pictures directory. Is this not what you mean? > 2. it doesn't respect the paths (can't navigate) Not sure what this means, if you type in /tmp and then Enter it'll navigate to /tmp just as you expect it to. If you're in /tmp/directory it shows "$DriveName / tmp / directory" and clicking on any of them navigates to the right place. > 3. i don't want to play a keyboard shortcuts game Why do you want to have a path bar that you type into then if you don't want to use the keyboard? Just manually double-click your way to success instead of using the keyboard, nothing is stopping you. Either use the keyboard, or don't. Both approaches work.
  - HeckFeck 4y ago
    > i have a document with everything that i hate about it I can save you the effort by reminding everyone that the GTK3 file picker is a significant setback from the Windows 98 filepicker, and it the amount of times I encounter it on Linux is beginning to feel like flagellation.
    - Gordonjcp 4y ago
      Can you explain why you think it's worse?
      - HeckFeck 4y ago
        No thumbnail images. It is a meme for good reason. Really annoying after how many years waiting? Low on details, extremely limited customisation options. When I begin typing a file name to save a file, it interprets this as a desire to filter the contents of the file list. The aforementioned lack of any path or way to type in the full path to a location. There were more but thankfully I don't see it as often since I use KDE now. This site compares the two directly: https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbnails-in-the-file-picker.html https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...
        Gordonjcp 4y ago
        So the reason it's broken, is that it doesn't do all the annoying things that make the file picker in Windows 98 broken? Granted I've never used Windows 98 so I don't know what I'd compare it with but all those misfeatures sound annoying.
        HeckFeck 4y ago
        I think you've read me wrongly. All that I described above are problems in the GTK3 file picker that aren't problems in the Windows 98 file picker. See the linked web page for a screenshot of the W98 picker for a visual aid.
        4y ago
  - Gordonjcp 4y ago
    At least on normal Ubuntu 22.04 the path bar behaves as you'd expect - it shows what you've clicked on, and if you click on the path bar and start typing a path it goes where you say.

severine 4y ago

https://feaneron.com/2022/12/14/the-burial-of-the-filechooser-meme/ https://feaneron.com/2022/12/14/the-burial-of-the-filechoose...

capableweb 4y ago

> I wish they'd replace the Gnome filepicker too, that is the worst piece of garbage i ever seen, you can't even manually type a path!! Don't have it in front of me right now, but can't you hit CTRL+L to bring up the "address bar" and manually write the path there? CTRL+L works in a lot of places to enter paths, from web browsers to local disk browsers.

Kukumber 4y ago
Issues i have with the path bar (from the top of my head) 1. it is not permanent, it disappears and never remember anything 2. it doesn't respect the paths (can't navigate) 3. i don't want to play a keyboard shortcuts game That's just one of the issues i have with the Gnome Filepicker, there is also the mounted disks that appears like it's a mobile UX, and many more, i have a document with everything that i hate about it, but i'm not on my PC to share it, it is an UX disaster I wish i could use Thunar as a filepicker, that would be perfect
- capableweb 4y ago
  > 1. it is not permanent, it disappears and never remember anything What is it supposed to remember? Last path you opened? Seems to work fine for me in Firefox at least. First I tried uploading a image to imgur from my Downloads directory, then next time I wanted to select a picture it opened into the Downloads directory. Then I uploaded a image from my Pictures directory and next time it opened, it opened directly to the Pictures directory. Is this not what you mean? > 2. it doesn't respect the paths (can't navigate) Not sure what this means, if you type in /tmp and then Enter it'll navigate to /tmp just as you expect it to. If you're in /tmp/directory it shows "$DriveName / tmp / directory" and clicking on any of them navigates to the right place. > 3. i don't want to play a keyboard shortcuts game Why do you want to have a path bar that you type into then if you don't want to use the keyboard? Just manually double-click your way to success instead of using the keyboard, nothing is stopping you. Either use the keyboard, or don't. Both approaches work.
- HeckFeck 4y ago
  > i have a document with everything that i hate about it I can save you the effort by reminding everyone that the GTK3 file picker is a significant setback from the Windows 98 filepicker, and it the amount of times I encounter it on Linux is beginning to feel like flagellation.
  - Gordonjcp 4y ago
    Can you explain why you think it's worse?
    - HeckFeck 4y ago
      No thumbnail images. It is a meme for good reason. Really annoying after how many years waiting? Low on details, extremely limited customisation options. When I begin typing a file name to save a file, it interprets this as a desire to filter the contents of the file list. The aforementioned lack of any path or way to type in the full path to a location. There were more but thankfully I don't see it as often since I use KDE now. This site compares the two directly: https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbnails-in-the-file-picker.html https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...
      - Gordonjcp 4y ago
        So the reason it's broken, is that it doesn't do all the annoying things that make the file picker in Windows 98 broken? Granted I've never used Windows 98 so I don't know what I'd compare it with but all those misfeatures sound annoying.
        HeckFeck 4y ago
        I think you've read me wrongly. All that I described above are problems in the GTK3 file picker that aren't problems in the Windows 98 file picker. See the linked web page for a screenshot of the W98 picker for a visual aid.
        4y ago
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  At least on normal Ubuntu 22.04 the path bar behaves as you'd expect - it shows what you've clicked on, and if you click on the path bar and start typing a path it goes where you say.