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jayfax.neocities.org is a personal blog at jayfax.neocities.org about systems and culture. Since 2021, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on GNOME's file picker, which lacks image thumbnails, a long-running complaint they cite when discussing GNOME, KDE and GTK usability.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2021-01-10
- /mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbnails-in-the-file-picker3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-17
What Hacker News says?
I don't need new reasons to hate Linux. Like I said, I have moved to macbooks as my personal computing device because of the better hardware. > solved a while ago Can not be the case because I was facing these issues less than a couple of years ago. I was responding to the "Stockholm syndrome" comment specifically because there are a number of hardware and software problems (e.g. https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocr…
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on “The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source”Submitted GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked as a story · 1505 points
HN discussionIf you read the article more closely than I did originally there is an example of what I see in their original article [0]. The thumbnail is part of the list view and they want to see a thumbnail without the other file details. [0] https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome2.png
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on “GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked”Submitted Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked (2021) as a story · 365 points
HN discussionWhat they meant is having thumbnail instead of the icon, so that you can quickly see a preview of all the files instead of having to select them one by one. This article was somewhat recently shared and it explains the whole ordeal https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna... (contains snarky language). It’s a small(-ish) issue but people often share it as a good example of their frustration with…
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on “An X11 apologist tries Wayland”GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...
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on “Gnome 40”Yo... You know what's more retarded on this GNOME screenshot https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/Filepickermeme.png than the absence of thumbnails? The button order. Don't use GTK. Ever! Do you get me? [No][Yes]
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on “Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked (2021)”Try uploading a file in GNOME. The interface has no thumbnails. This has been an open issue for something like 18 years. Its not a problem in KDE. More info: https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...
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on “I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration”This is one of the problems, and it might be the biggest problem with the modern web, but it's not the only problem. Non-experts are bad at producing remixable content. * A significant number of people do not really use file names. https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna... * Twitter offers no official way to make bold or italic text, but some people make it work using math symbols. They either…
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on “How does Firefox's Reader View work? (2020)”You sure about that? I see the bug is still open: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233 This is not about thumbnails in the file manager but about the file chooser (open/save dialog). I believe the following post is still relevant: https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna... At least KDE does this properly: https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2021/04/comparison-of-file-choose...
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on “Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025”Well why doesn't the GNOME project offer a way for people to pay for specific features and bugfixes? I would contribute money if I knew it would go towards paying someone to fix the file-chooser dialog. So would a lot of other people, if there was an announcement. I know for a fact I am not the only person who would do this: https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna... > One may say, "quit complai…
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on “File picker meme”Are we getting thumbnails in the filepicker? https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna... Outside of that little joke (although it's a real problem), it's nice to have something like this. It will help developers to make coherent interfaces and the GNOME ecosystem will get better with this. I personally like GNOME, I use it mainly through Pop!_OS as I really don't like snaps.
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on “Updated GNOME User Interface Guidelines are now official”It would obviously be easier for GNOME to ship an apparently more refined experience when customization possibilities are negligible and basic features are missing. One can't even change the fonts of GNOME out of the box without first installing Tweak Tool and even then, you can't change the font of GNOME Shell itself. If you dare customize the CSS to change it, you're implementing "hacks". I wouldn't be surprised i…
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on “Please don’t theme our apps”They’re referring to the file picker. https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna... Gnome still doesn’t have an effective way to preview images when picking files, a feature from Windows 98.
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on “Gnome 43, “Guadalajara””I had an almost identical experience to the parent, though I went KDE a little earlier than the publication of that incredible article, "GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker (and my toilets are blocked)" [0]. It's absolutely worth a read, regardless of your chosen DE. ...but after you're done reading it, perhaps you too will change your mind. [0] https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...
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on “Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux”No thumbnail images. It is a meme for good reason. Really annoying after how many years waiting? Low on details, extremely limited customisation options. When I begin typing a file name to save a file, it interprets this as a desire to filter the contents of the file list. The aforementioned lack of any path or way to type in the full path to a location. There were more but thankfully I don't see it as often since I…
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on “XFCE 4.18 Released”> any designer who attempts to help and improve things finds themselves ignored, with no means to actually carry out any decision, and walk away soon after. Ah yes, remember how long it took before image thumbnails appeared in the GTK file picker? Finally in 2022, but that was after countless forks and patches submitted that implemented them. https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...
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