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+[#]: author: "Sourav Rudra https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/"
+[#]: collector: "lkxed"
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+Better Late Than Never! GNOME's File Picker Adds Thumbnail View After 18 Years
+======
+
+A long-lost request, and a much-needed one, finally made its way through!
+
+![Better Late Than Never! GNOME's File Picker Adds Thumbnail View After 18 Years][1]
+
+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][2] 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.
+
+#### Recommended Read 📖
+
+### Feature to Arrive With GNOME 44
+
+![gnome file thumbnail view][3]
+
+As demonstrated by this early build screenshot provided by GNOME developer [Matthias Clasen][4]. The file picker on GNOME is going to feature a thumbnail view.
+
+This is how it looks like with GNOME 43 on board:
+
+![file picker with gnome 43][5]
+
+**How to access it?:** It is a grid view for the file picker on GNOME that shows the thumbnail previews of files and folders.
+
+It will now be easy to differentiate items in the file manager; no more opening a file to see what it contains!
+
+![gnome file thumbnail view selector][6]
+
+When this feature arrives, you can enable it by clicking on the new view toggle button at the top right.
+
+**What Changed?:** 18 years for a simple feature addition is a long time. Numerous technical reasons made the implementation of this an arduous task.
+
+But I am glad that it is finally here. 😃
+
+One of the reasons that made this possible was the recent deprecations and modernization work carried out in the GTK code base.
+
+> 💡 GTK is the toolkit that is at the core of all things GNOME.
+
+And, those changes resulted in [GtkListView][7] and [GtkGridView][8] using the same data models to make this feature work.
+
+**When to expect?:** The historical [merge request][9] has already been accepted and is paving the way for its introduction to GNOME.
+
+You can expect this to arrive with GNOME 44 sometime in 2023.
+
+I'm looking forward to that! 😁
+
+We would be covering it as part of GNOME 44's feature offerings. So, stay tuned to our coverage for that!
+
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+via: https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-file-picker/
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+作者：[Sourav Rudra][a]
+选题：[lkxed][b]
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+[1]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w2000/2022/12/gtk-file-chooser-gets-thumbnail-preview-support.png
+[2]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154
+[3]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2022/12/GNOME_File_Thumbnail.png
+[4]: https://twitter.com/matthias_clasen
+[5]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2022/12/file-picker-now.png
+[6]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2022/12/GNOME_File_Thumbnail-2.png
+[7]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/main/gtk/gtklistview.c
+[8]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/main/gtk/gtkgridview.c
+[9]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/5163
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