Hi guys.
I installed Linux (Xubuntu) today but I'm having a bit of a problem.
When I try to upload images to here (using Chromium) there are no thumbnails. In addition, they're really really small.
Any way to enable thumbnails and make them bigger?
Thanks.
I saved a few pics from the front page to demonstrate. Pic related.
Xubuntu uses a GUI toolkit called GTK. The feature you're looking for (and that is absent) is specific to GTK. There are ways for developers to add thumbnails to the file picker, but for some reason it's absent from most GTK applications. People have been asking the Gnome developers to implement thumbnail support for ~11 years, and they haven't - because they're a bunch of intensely incompetent fuckwits.
As far as I know, which file chooser to open is entirely up to the application developers. So, some applications will use the GTK one, some will use the Qt one, some will use the KDE one.
For more info, here's the bug report from 11 years ago:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154&
>>52169904
What? It shows a preview of images in Chromium. Are you talking about seeing large thumbnails like Windows 7?
>>52170038
Well... shit.
>>52170086
Yeah the big images like in Windows. Although I'm not even getting the small previews that you're getting.
>>52170138
I am using Xubuntu 15.10 with the generic packages. Try changing your theme and icons in the settings to Numix or something.
>>52169904
Xubuntu uses GTk.It does'nt have that.If you are looking for that use KDE.Or maybe LXQt(Never tried the later though)
>>52170190
KDE 4.x was beautiful and fun to use. Plasma 5 is the embodiment of bloat and takes forever to boot even on an SSD. Constant bugs and system crashing when I try to make cosmetic changes to the UI. Very disappointing because it looks sexy.
You can also just drag and drop files from the default file manager. Not a fix but at least you don't need KDE.
>>52170210
4 was pretty bloat too, but at least more consistent. Something about 5 still feels unfinished, more than just bugs.
>>52170190
>>52170210
>KDE
This is harmful.
yeah, good luck with that, op. you'd have to install kde, which looks like ass
https://www.np.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3yyx8b/major_linux_problems_on_the_desktop_2016_edition/cyi1fq0
There is a patch for gtk2 library in AUR for example. But it's a bit glitchy. Also, you can use that patch on other distros of course. IIRC arch users are forced to patch thumbnailer also which is cause some glitches (plain grey desktop), but if you just patch gtk, then it will be ok (except that you should view pictures in FM for thumbnails appearing in chooser).
Sorry for my derpy engrish btw.
you all are lying sacks of shit and should burn
>>52171960
what is this
thumbnails for ants?
Dragging and dropping the picture into the file upload is how its done. If you know about this it works just as well, which is probably why nobody seems to car enough to fix it.
I personally find the fact that you cant do this (drag files into upload) in Windows more annoying, cause it means that you often have to navigate back to the directory you are currently using wheyou want to upload something.
>>52170038
>and they haven't - because they're a bunch of intensely incompetent fuckwits.
Because it isn't heavily demanded. Online services typically tell users to drag and drop their images onto a box, and GNOME provides an online account system that allows you to upload your photos to facebook/google/flickr/whatever through your image management application.
The fact adding an image to a post on 4chan is probably the best example of why this feature is needed should tell you exactly why there is no rush to add this code upstream.
Every time this gets brought up Linux users get so salty and post all these "workarounds" and excuses why "you dont really need that" and then you get cretins like >>52170086
and >>52171960 who are so detached from reality that they claim to not even understand the problem.
>>52169904
Troll. Not Xubuntu.
> icons
> no "desktop" "music" on the lefr
> dat theme
Try harder.
Another victim fell for the gahnoo palus linooks meme.
>>52172182
To me its not really an issue, I use Linux on my workstation. Not having gigantic thumbnails for shitposting is the least of my concerns. It shows the preview of image anyway.
>>52170210
>takes forever to boot
This is deliberate for some reason.
Disable splash screen and shape like 15 seconds off the boot.
Op, Im using KDE these days, thumbnails are better There and it works fine otherwise. No slower to boot than xfce from what I can notice.
>>52172041\
Having thumbnails in the file picker is also useful for people who use Photo Editing or illustration programs such as gimp or Krita a lot. Since Krita is starting to gain a lot of popularity among artists maybe GTK developers should think about implementing that.
>>52172182
It's sad. The thumbnail issue and the fact that in nautilus I can't drag and highlight items to select them in list mode is one of my main issues with GTK based distros.
>>52172267
*I meant "GTK based desktop enviroments"
>i'm too incompetent to name my images correctly
>le epin file picker maymay
>>52172182
this is why the normies will never use Linux, because so much of it's fundamentally not been designed by someone who thought usability was important
>>52170038
>https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154&
Why is the favicon showing up as fineas from that childrens cartoon with the platypus?
>>52172182
Windows users should rather care about getting Microsoft to fix their own shitty file uploader. You still can't just drop something into the file upload dialogue, instead it will try to move the file into that directory, whoever thought this was useful in any way deserves to be shot.
Every time when I want to upload something I have to navigate to the fucking directory, even though I HAVE ALREADY OPENED IT.
Its kind of sad that at this point the only OS that has a proper file upload is OSX.
>>52172446
It lets me do that on windows 10 with palemoon if I drop it on the "Browse..." button
>>52169904
sorry OP, works on my machine
>>52172446
drag it into the bar. it works for me.
>>52172446
Just do it like someone who's not retarded
>>52169904
>Open file manager
>Drag annd drop file to reply box
>Wow so fucking difficult
>No longer blame OS for an issue that is in fact a fault of the browser you use.
If you want modern features, use a modern desktop like kde.
If you want to use something lightweigt, use a filemanager + browser when you upload things.
gtk could really use a good file manager.
If you have ever used a kde application, no user would want anything else.
The only way to fix the whole toolkit bullshit is to make it modular so you just call the system file dialog instead of calling the qt file picker or the gtk file picker.
I am too lazy to force this through so who is with me?
>implying having the filemanager open 24/7 just to be able to post pictures like a human beeing is not retarded
just install windows, we have that feature since 20 years.
>>52172630
>since
for*
Learn proper english Panjeet Dikshit
It makes your shilling more trustworthy.
>>52172479
How, jakub?
>>52172659
Thanks!
>>52172666
patched glib2 gtk2
There's a repository (copr) for fedora with it.
And I'm fairly sure there's one for arch.
>>52169904
drag and drop from the file manager
How to thumbnails on debian? Please halp.
I only know about the arch package.
>>52172709
retard
>>52172630
>implying decisions made by the developers of the browser you use should be considered a black mark against your operating system.
>>52172188
it is xubuntu
the theme is greybird
the wm theme is xfce's 4.12 Default
he could have removed those bookmarks on the side list
the icons are xfce-elementary again from shimmering project and standart on xubuntu
>>52172743
>>52172508
>>52172479
>>52172467
>workaround implemented by Firefox to fix the shitty file upload
>doesn't work in IE
>doesn't work anywhere else
Why do you defend this?
Gif related, the superior file selection dialogue. Please also note how it actually previews pdfs, gifs and webms properly.
>>52172743
Did you poo in the loo Rajesh
>>52172771
>Why do you defend this?
Because a lot of things don't work with IE. And three anons all tested it and it worked for them without changing anything that they do on their computer. Why are you so butthurt about it?
>>52172840
>And three anons all tested it and it worked for them without changing anything that they do on their compute
Just take a look.
>>52172927
>Ugly as fuck.
>>52172927
>IE
Just fuck off you retard
>>52173090
>>52172840
Its a problem on *any* windows application that doesn't happen to implement some form of workaround.
>>52172446
>file upload dialogue
Lolwat. Based retard. Drag it on the button the same way you'd do that in linux.
>>52171732
underrated post
>>52169904
Xubuntu is a meme we intentionally let spread on /g/ in order to detect and mock newfags. XFCE is outdated and barely usable.
Now that you fell for the meme and you've been thru enough pain, install the actual best *buntu out there: Ubuntu MATE. All those problems will go away.
>>52172030
You drop it on the upload button. It's been replied already 5 times in this thread. Read a book, nigger.
>>52174836
>Drag it on the button the same way you'd do that in linux.
Doesn't work in the system browser (see >>52172927)
>>52172854
What kind of sorcery is this?
>>52174982
>pretending to not understand the problem
That only works in Firefox, the file selector itself simply lacks feature, which leads to applications where it doesn't work >>52172927
>>52169904
Reading the sticky should help
>>52175068
It werks on chrome too you twat
>>52175010
>>52175068
>Using IE unironically
Grandpa, it works in every single browser except IE
>>52175100
this 2bh senpai
>>52175100
>>52175101
>still not getting it
The point is that its *not supported* by the actual upload dialogue, which would make it work *everywhere* not just through shitty workarounds in specific applications.
>>52175147
You seem to be confused between file chooser and upload button generated by the browser.
>*not supported* by the actual upload dialogue
Thumbnails are supported by file chooser in windows
>actual upload dialogue
This thing doesn't exist. It's up to browser devs to implement it.
>>52175231
>This thing doesn't exist.
Apparently it does https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/br207847
>nobody mentioned Dolphin
>/g/
>>52175231
>It's up to browser devs to implement it.
Now that is just apologism. Again, all other platforms file choosers do this just fine. Why wouldn't you just accept that its a shortcoming of the windows file chooser?
>>52175520
>This thing doesn't exist.
>Links to file opener class instead of "upload dialogue"
top kek
>>52175589
Still not getting the difference between "file picker" and "upload button"
>>52170038
>this is why linux sucks
>this is why people aren't switching
B-but muh command line
