After 18 Years, Gtk Native File Chooser Gets Thumbnail View
It’s finally here. You can now see the thumbnail in the native file chooser on the GNOME desktop.
It took almost two decades, and finally, the native Gtk file chooser dialog got the icon and thumbnail views. The necessary code was merged yesterday in Gtk main branch in GitLab.
Update (by Roy)
Original from Matthias Clasen:
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A grid for the file chooser - GTK Development Blog
In the last post, we discussed deprecating treeviews and cell renderers, among other things. All these deprecations cause a lot of work for applications and libraries using these APIs, so why are doing this?
One of the reasons is to enable new features. Such as a grid view for the file chooser. It only took us 18 years! You can see the original feature request in Bugzilla. This is easily possible now because GtkListView and GtkGridView can use the same data models.
Another one:
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Better Late Than Never! GNOME's File Picker Adds Thumbnail View After 18 Years
Nowadays, the user interface of a program is extremely important; even the simplest of interactions can make or break the user's experience. The GNOME file picker lacked a proper thumbnail preview for viewing files, instead relying on a plain list view. This may have been unintuitive for many. The lack of this feature was also the topic of many memes and debates over the years. But now, finally, after 18 long years since the original feature request was put out, GNOME is set to receive support for a proper thumbnail view. Let's look at this upcoming change to GNOME's file picker.