Hi, I’ve been using Linux on and off for 20ish years, finally made the switch, and the one thing that has always driven me nuts is the file managers.

As an example, when I attach images to posts on websites, I get a nice window to popup to choose which file I want. This popup is ass. It only gives me a tiny preview of the file (images) that I have currently selected. There’s no way to change views to thumbnails, right click and open in an image viewer to double check that I am uploading the correct file, none of it. I have to navigate to the folder in another window and double check filenames if there is no preview. (This is getting more common because of webp images.)

I have a host of other complaints about the file manager on here and most I’ve come across, but this is the most annoying issue for me.

I am on Ubuntu Cinnamon at the moment.

To add to this since the file picker is something different. I dislike the file manager as well because of lots of reasons, but the biggest being that when I’m using thumbnails, it looks like all the files are only slightly aligned to a grid. Everything is off by just enough to annoy the shit out of me.

  • Łumało [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m sorry but the file picker has been this way since fucking 2004. I was one then, just look how time flies huh. I’m sorry but this issue goes back almost 2 decades of complaining. Seriously.

    BUT! The impossible seems to finally have been done! For applications using GTK4 that is, and I think the application you are using might be GTK3. So sorry, unless it updates the toolkit you won’t have a grid view.