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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by tylermenezes on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:19PM (#25721466)
Wow I never thought about Ctrl+Click to deselect in that situation. I've probably wasted at least an hour of my life by giving up and re-opening the window in a different way. Thanks!

(I actually asked someone more knowledgable about this once and was told that it's my fault for using the file picker incorrectly and I simply need to stop doing that.)

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by formerly_proven on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:22PM (#25721489)
Can't take credit for that — someone told me to use ctrl+click in this situation after I ranted about it elsewhere.
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by tsukurimashou on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:29PM (#25723019)
One thing I was happy to discover as a kid was shift + tab to go backwards with input selection (Spacebar to trigger checkboxes was nice too)
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by jfim on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:01PM (#25723325)
These shortcuts have been a thing for quite a while too, they come from the IBM CUA guidelines [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by StillBored on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:13PM (#25750903)
I'm a regular user of the CUA guideline's copy/paste shortcuts. Those shortcuts work in pretty much every MS OS from the early 1990s until recently. Linux has been a mess, but KDE has been pretty decent at enforcing global shortcuts.

The past 5 years though have been a nightmare, MS has really messed their UI up, and various applications/toolkits or whatever the problem no longer properly support the CUA guidelines which in the past were the one assured way of doing an operation cross applications and various OSs (windows+linux/kde).

Maybe its time to start going to a few developer conferences and giving talks about how useful system wide shortcuts that work across multiple OSs really are.

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by snvzz on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:58PM (#25723299)
I tried C-shift-A, but didn't work.

Control click seems to work.

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