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> 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 fro

> 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.
      - Gordonjcp 4y ago
        Yes, the Windows 98 one is broken.
        HeckFeck 4y ago
        If you think that not having image thumbnails for image files in a filepicker is a 'feature', you must be trolling. Or a Gnome developer.
        Gordonjcp 4y ago
        Why? And why have that broken behaviour on the path entry box, where it doesn't filter down the files in the list?
  - stonogo 4y ago
    The thumbnails-in-filepicker feature branch was merged recently: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/5163 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/5163 The rest of your complaints, which I share, remain unfixed.

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.
    - Gordonjcp 4y ago
      Yes, the Windows 98 one is broken.
      - HeckFeck 4y ago
        If you think that not having image thumbnails for image files in a filepicker is a 'feature', you must be trolling. Or a Gnome developer.
        Gordonjcp 4y ago
        Why? And why have that broken behaviour on the path entry box, where it doesn't filter down the files in the list?
- stonogo 4y ago
  The thumbnails-in-filepicker feature branch was merged recently: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/5163 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/5163 The rest of your complaints, which I share, remain unfixed.