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GNOME Plans for A New File Chooser Dialog (debugpointnews.com)
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[–] lankybiker@lemmy.world -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But I bet we still won't get working thumbnails

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

We already do, though.

[–] lankybiker@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fedora 39. Downland an image and then look at it in picker and there's no thumbnail. The picker won't generate thumbnails.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ah, I know what you mean.

Yeah, the way it works now I think the file picker relies on Nautilus to generate the thumbnail first, so any new images will use a placeholder instead. Once you've viewed the file in Nautilus once, though, the thumbnail will show up in the picker from then on.

[–] lankybiker@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Yep which when downloading from one place to then upload to another place is not part of the process

Here's hoping this gets fixed, it's annoying and stupid

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A big complaint for KDE is "the setup" but honestly all of the people in here are defending the worse of the 2 lol.

If thumbnails aren't natively turned on and GOOD, it's far worse.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Depends on your use case, I suppose. I'm generally editing existing images and files, so I had practically forgotten that the picker doesn't generate the image itself. For me, thumbnails work perfectly 99% of the time, but for someone who is constantly working with freshly downloaded files, I can understand that it would be a pain.

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Even windows handles them better than Gnome though... I left because it's legit unusable if you do any design whatsoever.

The KDE video previews for .MKV alone was enough for a switch from me.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah but you also have to put up with the rest of that DE