Warning, rant ahead:
File chooser grid view (ie thumbnails) - that's nice, but I'm so jaded at this point to care anymore. I've been using ubuntu on and off as my personal system for the past 15 years, it sure beats windows in many respects (typing this on MacOS). But I'm just too old to be excited by UI features that should've been here long ago and that were the standard in the software of the late 90s and early 2000s. There has also been a vocal part of the community defending the lack of thumbnails in the file picker, so this whole story has a bitter taste to it. One more thing, it feels like open source systems and UIs are developing at a glacial pace these days, either the tools used to develop open source software are sub-par or maybe there is a lack of people working on it and effort put into it. So glacial that in the age of AI, a grid view is somehow a notable feature. There seems to be less to be excited about these days and I have given up expecting great things.
> it feels like open source systems and UIs are developing at a glacial pace these days
Check out hyprland: hyprland.org
Same old same old. I don't want a tiling WM, thanks. I'm a big boy, I've been using WIMPs for 35 years, and I can manage my own windows very nicely with a few keystrokes. I don't need a tool to do it for me and fail to read my mind.
I also don't want a bloody great horizontal panel across the top of the screen wasting 1cm of vertical space on a widescreen display. No it does not help if it's visually broken up into separate islands: it's dead to me. Wasted space. Either use it, and you'd better find a remarkably good set of uses for it, or give it back.
> Same old same old. I don't want a tiling WM, thanks.
That's a very naive take of tiling. For traditional tiling, maybe.
But unlike WM that do tiling only, hyprland does more: it supports my keystrokes and lets me configure how much of space each window get, while also letting me "float" the windows like a regular window manager
> I'm a big boy, I've been using WIMPs for 35 years,
Have you considered the possibility you are so set in your ways that you are neglecting new and useful tool? The tone of your comment reminds me of the summary dismissals of fzy.
> I also don't want a bloody great horizontal panel across the top of the screen wasting 1cm of vertical space on a widescreen display
Then make the panel vertical instead of horizontal, or just close it lol - all of which can be done with a few keystrokes
You know that there is basically a standard set, imposed by Windows in about 1986 or something and also supported in GNOME 2, MATE, Xfce, LXDE, etc etc.? I am more interested in if it supports them. I mean, I don't know what your set are, and I am not for a moment saying there's anything wrong with them, but there are standards for this stuff, used heavily by millions of blind computer users for example.
> Have you considered the possibility you are so set in your ways that you are neglecting new and useful tool?
Could be. I am a professional assessor of, and commentator on, this stuff, though.
I mainly use a desktop I switched to in 2011. :-) Before that, I changed in 2004, after a change in 2001, after a change in 1995, after a change in 1992, after one in 1989, etc. etc.
I mean I am an old pharte, fair call, but I am a reasonably adaptable one, I think. :-D
What is "fzy"?
https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
...?
> Then make the panel vertical instead of horizontal
Why don't any of the screenshots show that, then?
I see 6 horizontal panels in the screenies on the homepage and Github, and one with none. From that, I don't think it's unreasonable to conclude this is not a core feature or something.