Seems like a channer problem. It's not suprising that no one from /g/ has made a patch yet.
Edit: Actually, I just checked and apparently it's because the file picker actually does show thumbnail icons, just very small ones. For example, https://files.catbox.moe/h3s3c3.png
I guess I can usually make out what the image is from the small thumbnail icons!
Everyone has a cell phone capable of holding thousands of images, most of which won't get an appropriate title.
For example, I'm tiling a bathroom now. It was very easy to just take dozens pictures of tiles send them off for approval, and get the top five back for a further price check. That entire workflow was enabled by thumbnails. If we had to check the filename of each image we were sending, it would have slowed things down immensely.
grand-canyon-001.jpg grand-canyon-002.jpg grand-canyon-003.jpg grand-canyon-004.jpg … grand-canyon-991.jpg
Or maybe
grand-canyon-east.jpg grand-canyon-west.jpg grand-canyon-north.jpg grand-canyon-south.jpg … grand-canyon-northeast.jpg
Thumbnails solve real problems and other guis have had this as a completely solved problem since literally the mid-nineties.
So, the downstairs toilet.
They did. Apparently the Gnome devs didn't want it. You can get it from the AUR.
https://gist.github.com/Dudemanguy/c172394e30e1e7d0f477ad15c...
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk3-patched-filechooser-...
You guess you just use proper file names?
This attitude is EXACTLY what the author is describing, and why Linux on the desktops fails to take hold.
If you want something done right, do it yourself. Commercial software is no exception to that.
>why Linux on the desktops fails to take hold.
Linux fails to take hold because it doesn't come preinstalled on laptops, and because it doesn't have the critical market share to take over. Basically nothing to do with file pickers.
The ideal use case is just using drag-and-drop behavior from the file manager, instead of implementing the file manager twice. The reality is that products like Windows have shaped people into thinking about the desktop in a certain way, and linux has limited leeway in reshaping those ideas (including their idiosyncrasies like file pickers).
As clearly stated in the article, there had been an open issue for almost a decade, and PRs rejected.
When windows is beating you in usability, you have a serious problem.
GNOME is one of the weirder and more difficult projects for a stranger to contribute to if your change does not fit into a very narrow and specific set of current priorities (unknown to the outside contributor, so good luck!). It is another world-of-wontfix poster child projects and I don't begrudge anyone who doesn't want to go through the hassle compared to most other open source projects they can spend their time on.
Eventually, you're left with just pointing out how ridiculous something is with GNOME and moving on. You're just not going to be able to get a fix merged regardless of merit, quality or tact. It isn't worth the pain.
Whether you like 4chan or think anybody who goes there is the devil incarnate, using 4chan as your excuse for dismissing such basic functionality as thumbnails in a file picker is deranged. Why not abolish file pickers entirely, since 4chan uses it? In fact lets ban drinking water too, I hear nazis like to drink it. Ban air too, we wouldn't want anybody using it to say something hateful. Is there any insanity "but 4chan exists!" can't be used to justify?
> I don't really have anything against channers.
I seriously doubt that, since you're the one who brought them up in an absurd attempt to deflect a common sense criticism of an obvious shortcoming.
fair enough.
>I seriously doubt that, since you're the one who brought them up in an absurd attempt to deflect a common sense criticism of an obvious shortcoming.
See my defense of channers in these threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31554117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31554152 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31554112