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Re:Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by Filligree on Friday June 17, 2022 @02:23PM (#31782270)
> When you're picking a file, you can even tap space to get a blown-up preview of an image or PRF. I use this feature almost every time I need to pick an image.

Wait, what? That would have been super useful, but how was I supposed to find out?

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Re:Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by apozem on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:15PM (#31782958)
It's not indicated anywhere visually. I don't even remember how I found out about it.

This is a downside of macOS and iOS design - lot of hidden gestures. For example, you can right-click the text title of a Finder window to open a quick navigation to all the parent folders of the current directory.

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Re:Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by skykooler on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:45PM (#31783314)
Wait, what? I knew about the spacebar thing but this one is new to me.
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Re:Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by jamesgeck0 on Friday June 17, 2022 @02:46PM (#31782589)
This works in every Finder window; if there's a window with files you can use Quick Look. I'm not sure if it's documented anywhere anymore, but it's been around 15 years.
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Re:Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by brigade on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:04PM (#31783539)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 or https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/view-and-edit-files... I guess?

First one also mentions the ⌘-click on a window's title

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