[crashdancer]

>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.

[josefx]

> . 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.

[crashdancer]

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.