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by NekkoDroid 742 days ago
> KDE did the work to make GTK apps integrate as much as possible but I think GNOME did zero work to integrate Qt or KDE apps and they tried sabotaging everyone else by removing the Tray or the server decoration.

Sure it's nice I guess if they have their own theme for GTK apps, but if their own QT Kirigami apps look like this[1] on other desktop they should probably focus more on that than on apps not made with their UI framework.

> What I want from this apps is to use same Open File Dialogs

From what I remember it uses the xdg-portal for opening the file dialog, so either this has been fixed a while ago or the portal was misconfigured to use the GTK dialog (on the DE side).

> Also I remember GNOME guys claiming that you do not need thumbnails in the File Picker, that you are doing it wrong and the reality was that it was not easy to add the feature so they preferred to push that excuse that you are doing it wrong.

All I remember is that there were multiple times over the years when patches were sent and when changes were requested each time the submitter just vanished but I might be misremembering.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/dolphin-on-PUvU0ze

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> All I remember is that their were multiple times over the years when patches were sent and when changes were requested each time the submitter just vanished but I might be misremembering.

The original bug report contained multiple comments pointing out that a file chooser is not a full blown file browser and that it either should not display or cause the creation of new thumbnails.

> and when changes were requested each time the submitter just vanished but I might be misremembering.

Like the guy who stopped responding after only a year of complete radio silence from the GNOME devs?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154&

>The original bug report contained multiple comments pointing out that a file chooser is not a full blown file browser and that it either should not display or cause the creation of new thumbnails.

I think you're misunderstanding those comments, the point is that an external service needs to generate the thumbnails. If the file chooser needs them it will have to call out to that external service. There isn't any desire to build all the complex system-specific behavior around thumbnail creation into GTK itself.

>Like the guy who stopped responding after only a year of complete radio silence from the GNOME devs?

All open source maintainers I know are overworked. You shouldn't take it personally or make negative assumptions if someone doesn't get around to your pull request. This is especially true of large PRs that can be overwhelming to review.

> . You shouldn't take it personally or make negative assumptions if someone doesn't get around to your pull request.

Wether the submitter took it personally or not is not even apparent and it does not change the fact that progress was blocked on GNOMEs side of the process and not by the submitters disappearing after changes where requested as the previous comment claims.

Yeah and I'm saying that's not a bad thing or even a rare occurrence. Sometimes PRs can be de-prioritized or forgotten for reasons that are outside of anyone's control, developers are human beings so that just happens. I've seen it in lots of open source projects.