kadath
September 25th, 2007, 07:51 AM
It's been a massive pet peeve of mine that the GTK File Chooser (AKA "the open / save dialog") doesn't have a thumbnail view for images. This is a pain when trying to upload images with Firefox, in particular.
Well, just a few moments ago I ran across this on Ars Technica:
In GNOME 2.20, the file dialog now supports searching and displaying recently used files...
Although these new features are useful and tangibly improve usability, GNOME's file dialogs are still extremely weak in many respects. For instance, the file dialogs still do not support even basic file management tasks like renaming and deletion. The file dialogs also lack adequate support for thumbnail display. Dialogs in some applications will show a thumbnail for one item at a time, but the file dialog windows do not display thumbnails next to individual files in the list—a feature that can be found in both KDE and Windows. It's a serious deficiency that has long detracted from the general usefulness of GNOME's file dialogs. In many cases, when I use a file dialog in GNOME, I find myself opening up a Nautilus browser and navigating to the same path so that I can see thumbnails or perform file maintenance tasks before saving or loading.
The full article is here (http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/gnome-2-20-review.ars).
How clueless are the GNOME devs? They add a ****ing search feature but continue to ignore requests for basic things like a thumbnail view!
I use Xfce because of the GNOME devs' apparent lack of interest in users' feedback, but being based on GTK, even Xfce suffers from these inherited deficiencies.
If I didn't use so many GTK apps and love Xfce, I would've moved to KDE a long time ago :mad:
Well, just a few moments ago I ran across this on Ars Technica:
In GNOME 2.20, the file dialog now supports searching and displaying recently used files...
Although these new features are useful and tangibly improve usability, GNOME's file dialogs are still extremely weak in many respects. For instance, the file dialogs still do not support even basic file management tasks like renaming and deletion. The file dialogs also lack adequate support for thumbnail display. Dialogs in some applications will show a thumbnail for one item at a time, but the file dialog windows do not display thumbnails next to individual files in the list—a feature that can be found in both KDE and Windows. It's a serious deficiency that has long detracted from the general usefulness of GNOME's file dialogs. In many cases, when I use a file dialog in GNOME, I find myself opening up a Nautilus browser and navigating to the same path so that I can see thumbnails or perform file maintenance tasks before saving or loading.
The full article is here (http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/gnome-2-20-review.ars).
How clueless are the GNOME devs? They add a ****ing search feature but continue to ignore requests for basic things like a thumbnail view!
I use Xfce because of the GNOME devs' apparent lack of interest in users' feedback, but being based on GTK, even Xfce suffers from these inherited deficiencies.
If I didn't use so many GTK apps and love Xfce, I would've moved to KDE a long time ago :mad: