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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by dm319 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:49PM (#25721814)
Yup - one of the many reasons I needed to stay on MATE.
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by dleslie on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:24PM (#25723991)
MATE continues to be fantastic; I see no reason to switch.
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by ziotom78 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:56PM (#25724717)
It has been a long time since I tried MATE. Do you mean that the file dialog does not implement recursive search?

If it is so, then I must consider switching! (At the moment I am using Xfce.)

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by pizza234 on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:46AM (#25726746)
MATE's based on GTK, so it inherits all the GTK "features", last but not least, the v3 file chooser, which lost along the way the create new folder key binding, and the quick search by prefix (which now has to be inconveniently performed on the address bar).

Additionally, programs may rely on different GTK versions, which also makes things confusing. For example, Visual Studio Code and Firefox use GTK3.

edit: extended with programs explanation

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by dm319 on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:31AM (#25727562)
Oh darn. I don't have a problem on my UbuntuMATE, but realised I'm still on 18.04. At least caja seems sane?
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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by pantalaimon on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:18AM (#25728486)
Caja retains all the features of Gnome 2's Nautilus and gained a few more.

I actually like background textures for my file manager, so i'm happy this stayed.

But there is also tabbed and two pane view which got axed from Nautilus too.

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by ziotom78 on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:48AM (#25726763)
Sigh, I feared this answer! :-(
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