Bit of an annoying thing I’ve noticed since leaving Mac (which does this).
I love using space bar to ‘preview’ files, especially images, since the thumbnail is often too small to see what it is. Hit space, look, hit space to close. Great.
The annoying thing is that functionality doesn’t work when you have a File dialogue open, so I can’t preview files, annoying when want to check if an image is the right one to upload/use. Example is when adding images to posts in here, i click to add image, file manager window opens to select a file, but space bar doesn’t preview them, so I have to go to Files app and manually find it to preview it before coming back to browser (remembering file name, which is tricky when most start with screenshot and date!)
Wondered if there is a process I can go through to formally request this be considered for future updates?
thanks
The File Chooser does not have a Grid View, so you can’t see the thumbnails. I typically get around this by having the File manager open in it’s own workspace in Grid View with large zoom and using Super+Tab
He means with the Project, for example The Desktop Project, in this case it would be The Gnome Project. Some times these things/features are usually handled by the community as needs arise. Plugins or extensions are made for these things, the unfortunate side effect is that they often time break.
With Gnome, the current maintainers are shown in the *.doap file
Look under “Plan” and then “Issues”.
Then click on “New Issue”.
It was unmaintained for a while and it might be in a kind of maintainence mode right now. But perhaps Gnome is entering a phase where it’s able to get some funding for a bit of window painting and roof fixing.
One thing you could do, if you have “Loupe” image viewer installed, is click the “Open in Image Viewer” button which should spawn a new instance every time you click it.
I didn’t understand this. I have never heard of Loupe. Are you suggesting I would right click in that dialogue window on the file I want to preview, and it would give me a preview? Sorry, I am new on Linux
But older versions of Gnome have a different program, that isn’t quite as lightweight.
When you select an image and press space, and the preview window pops up, if you look in the top right, it should have a button saying something like “Open in Image Viewer”.
If you click it, it will open the image in that application.
So if everytime you find an image you want to upload, you can click that button.
What I’ve done in the past is open several dozen of these, going back to the list of files in Files, pressing space, scrolling with arrow keys, finding the image I want, pressing the “open in image viewer” button, moving the window off to the side maybe.
Then I’ll upload an image, and close the window, then I know I’ve uploaded it.
You don’t seem to understand that I don’t have the ability to hit space to preview a file in the dialogue that pops up. I don’t find my images in Files app. I will be typing a message on a forum, such as this one right now, and then I will take a screenshot and want to attach it here. I click image attachment icon, and the dialogue pops up, but no way to see what they are (except in a tiny thumbnail).
Hence I either missed the point of your message, or you go about your process a different way
I understand you would like to have a similar experience in Fedora as you would on a mac. While on a mac one can use the space bar to quickly browse through/preview the files in the File Manager as well as in the File Choser window, in Fedora you can only do that in the File Manager.
One workaround for your scenario might be to have the File Manager on the same desktop as the browser, find the desired file (e.g. via “preview”) in the File Manager, then open the File Choser window in your browser, then drag-and-drop your image file from the File Manager into the File Choser window. The File Choser would change the path to the location of the needed file and highlight it.
