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Why is it so hard in #Ubuntu and with #Gnome to show thumbnails of the screenshots I made, so I know which image to select without painstakingly opening them one by one from separate file window?

There's many images in my screenshot dir, all having thumbnails, except those created in the last 5 days. Why no thumbnails here? Why?

#AskFediWhy

in reply to smallcircles (Humanity Now πŸ•Š)

we are working on it! GNOME 47 will use the file manager (Nautilus) as file chooser.

Nautilus is able to generate the thumbnails, not only display existing ones.

cc @antoniof

in reply to Sonny

@sonny @antoniof

So if you keep a Files window open in the screenshots folder, you will get thumbnails in the current file chooser?

in reply to abstrm

@abstrm @antoniof yes as long as the app uses the native/system file chooser (rather than its own or an old/deprecated method)
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