• aleph@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Ah, I know what you mean.

    Yeah, the way it works now I think the file picker relies on Nautilus to generate the thumbnail first, so any new images will use a placeholder instead. Once you’ve viewed the file in Nautilus once, though, the thumbnail will show up in the picker from then on.

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      3 months ago

      Yep which when downloading from one place to then upload to another place is not part of the process

      Here’s hoping this gets fixed, it’s annoying and stupid

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      3 months ago

      A big complaint for KDE is “the setup” but honestly all of the people in here are defending the worse of the 2 lol.

      If thumbnails aren’t natively turned on and GOOD, it’s far worse.

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        3 months ago

        Depends on your use case, I suppose. I’m generally editing existing images and files, so I had practically forgotten that the picker doesn’t generate the image itself. For me, thumbnails work perfectly 99% of the time, but for someone who is constantly working with freshly downloaded files, I can understand that it would be a pain.

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          3 months ago

          Even windows handles them better than Gnome though… I left because it’s legit unusable if you do any design whatsoever.

          The KDE video previews for .MKV alone was enough for a switch from me.