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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by kaszanka on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:45PM (#25721770)
Yes. As you can see, this is by design.
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by philsnow on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:58PM (#25721928)
This is in my experience emblematic of GNOME in general. I've shaken the dust off my sandals and don't use anything gnome-y if I can avoid it.

Here's the thing that convinced me, a while back: https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAske...

I'm sure there's people here who are long-time contributors and/or supporters. Just ignore me, I'm not your target audience. ... I'm really not sure who your target audience is, though.

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by throwdbaaway on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:37PM (#25723649)
> I'm really not sure who your target audience is, though.

We should ask Havoc Pennington about this, he must have names for all the personas that he came up with, after reading "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum": https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-Dece...

I actually have a copy of the book, and it is indeed a good book. The problem is that it somehow empowers GNOME developers to keep creating/maintaining/rewriting broken software, all in the name of "usability".

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by Renevith on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:58PM (#25722717)
Holy crap. It reads like a parody written by someone who read this thread and article. I was thinking it couldn't be as bad as people we're saying, but it's worse!
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