Comment by weberer
4 years ago
That just tells me that you never upload images, or that your image folder is not particularly large. If trackpad drivers were broken, that would still be a pretty big issue, even though you personally always use a mouse.
I upload files all the time and for some reason I don't encounter this problem in gnome. Just give the files appropriate names?
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!
Thumbnails in your file picker are table stakes at this point.
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.
“Appropriate file names”?
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.
I rename files as I download them (or copy them from my phone/camera) or I just remember the file name that I downloaded. I suppose it's a problem if you have to deal with many unnamed images, but if it really came down to that I would just open up nautilus.
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>It's not suprising that no one from /g/ has made a patch yet.
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-...
Seeing the picture you want to upload is a channer problem?
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.
The problem is that channers complain, but do not do productive things like file PRs. So problems that matter to channers will remain unresolved.
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).
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Consider reading the linked post, the author includes screenshots identical to yours and explains that that is not what they mean.
> Seems like a channer problem.
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'm just saying it's a problem that one small group disproportionately complains about but does little to fix. I think that is pretty indicative of /g/ discourse which revolves around baiting other users into flamewars.
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