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why is the gnome file picker so bad
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you can't just view hidden items, gotta change a setting outside the picker
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@snacks@netzsphaere.xyz because its popular to complain about it so you appear vaguely techy

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@snacks use case for a good file picker?
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@snacks which one do you mean, the nautilus one or the gtk one?
nautilus one sucks because well, its nautilus, nautilus is kinda ass
gtk one sucks because no one works on it and they want you to just use the nautilus one
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@rose gtk, had to look around a while to figure out how to show hidden items
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@rose also not allowed to just enter paths lmao
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@snacks lmao yeah i just had to check myself after seeing your post, putting it in the right click menu is weird
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@rose right click just closes it for me?
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@snacks Ctrl+L
how is anyone supposed to know this? they're not, its not documented anywhere
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@snacks wait what? this is what it does for me when i right click
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@rose i changed the default settings with gsettings
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@snacks what? this is in the file picker
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@snacks good thing you can just use the KDE one in most apps (via desktop portals)

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@mischievoustomato @snacks oh yeah thats in nautilus, you cant get to that point when using the gtk file picker lol
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@rose @snacks on the file picker, clicking the address bar makes it editable, clicking the menu button next to it shows the button for it + shortcut
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@mischievoustomato @snacks you're not using the gtk file picker, you're using the gnome file picker which is just nautilus
the gtk file picker is this mess
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@rose @snacks fwiw, since gtk4, the gnome/gtk file picker is the gnome one, which iirc is nautilus basically with some things missing, but the needed core in there. I really like it because I can do things like searching. One jarring thing was that I just couldn't do that on the Dolphin/KDE file picker. Not to mention that Recent Files/Locations on KDE just don't work
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@rose @snacks yeah that one is old, i didnt do much with it in the past (been using gnome since I moved to linux near full time in 2020), but it was fine enough
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@mischievoustomato @rose @snacks yeah gnome file picker is good now, it almost makes up for drag-and-drop uploads still being iffy on wayland
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@pettanko @rose @snacks my drag and drop experience has been more or less good on chrome. firefox would fail for some reason
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@pettanko @snacks @mischievoustomato idk if thats fixed by now but like one or two years ago when i added drag-and-drop support to bottles it was a stupid fucking bug with portals where the application getting file just gets the full path, even if its in something like flatpak and needs the portal path
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@mischievoustomato @snacks @pettanko yeah i have changed as a person since then and no longer shill flatpaks angel_labrador
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@mischievoustomato @rose @snacks huh vivaldi is still hit or miss for me and that's just chromium
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@rose @snacks @pettanko i went from being super excited about them to "fuck this shit, i'm gonna avoid distros that require this shit"
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