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[-] UlrikHD@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

putting thumbnails in the file selection dialog

Could you elaborate what you by this?

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago
  • in the file manager, you can see thumbnails of images and videos
  • in the file picker (ie. “Open File” dialog box), you only see the filetype icon
[-] lynny@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

When you pick a file to upload or open from inside another application, the GTK/Gnome file picker does not allow you to have a thumbnail view of all the files. It is a meme in the Linux community at this point since there was a bug filed in 2004 asking for this feature, some even writing patches to make it work. Gnome devs refuse to change how the file picker works however.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154

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