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Do you have any idea why Nautilus isn't also the file picker?
by Laaas 4y ago
Do you have any idea why Nautilus isn't also the file picker?
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- sho_hn 4y agoNo, no idea. It's surprisingly common for DEs across different operating systems to have several independent implementations of file lists/icon views between the file manager, the desktop background and the file picker dialogs. I think across Win, Mac, Gnome, KDE this actually describes most of these systems for most of their history. You sometimes do find code reuse or even sharing a process between the file manager and the desktop background. Windows has done this, and Gnome also had a phase like this. KDE recently unified the view code for the file manager (Dolphin) and the file dialogs, but the desktop background has distinct UI code (with the same directory model backend, and shared code for thumbnailing, context menus and other bits). In that case the reason is different UI frameworks (Qt widgets vs. QML).
- type0 4y agoBecause, GTK, that's why https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/1bdb78a215f5e119c487b1cc1dbb8d54ed0913b3 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/1bdb78a215f5e119... https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/File_Picker_meme https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/File_Picker_meme
- cuteboy19 4y agoI love how android solves such problems. Instead of making the decision of whether a file manager must somehow be able to handle file picking, every application is allowed to choose whether it can do file picking. For a file manager it would probably be trivial, but the wonderful thing about this design is that it is very flexible