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What software do you wish that existed?
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A proper file picker for Linux.
Just curious, what are your issues with the current available options?
I'm not the person you replied to, but the one and only thing I miss about Windows is being able to paste a web address directly into the file picker.
Say I find an image here on Lemmy that I want to share with a friend on FB Messenger. On Windows, I could just copy the URL of the image, go to FB, "upload image" and paste the URL into the file picker dialog.
On Linux, I have to save it to my disk first.
Holy shit what?? I've been using Windows since 95 and didn't have the slightest idea you could do that.
It's not really advertised or intuitive in any way, so that doesn't surprise me. In fact, I have no recollection of how I came upon this feature. Maybe I discovered it in a fever dream, maybe it was on a lifehacker.com listicle. I'm not even sure it's supposed to be a feature, for all we know it could be an odd quirk, some legacy code in explorer.exe. The inner machinations of Windows are an enigma.
I never knew you could do that. Maybe I'll try my hands at implementing that on the kde file picker.
If you ever get around to it, let me know. I'd buy you a drink!
so do the same and paste the link on facebook. I thought facebook shows image links on chats.
I could just send the link, but I'd rather it be displayed directly in the chat. In any case, this was just an example. When I wanted to upload my avatar to lemmy, I had to download the image I found online and then upload it via the file picker. It'd be more convenient to just point the file picker directly to the URL of where the image is hosted in the first place, which Windows' file picker dialog allows (or at least it did on Windows 7).
Coincidentally, I was struggling and wishing I could do something similar a few days ago. Didn't know Windows could do it, that's awesome. I think, ideally, more software should accept pasting an image in input fields, without even the need to open a file picker. But the file picker handling URLs sounds cool as well.
You're not the person I replied to, but thanks for sharing :^)
Can't preview files before choosing them. Only thing is that tiny little "preview" thing for pictures and videos. Have to squint to even see the little tiny preview. No right click to open in file picker. I could go on.
Sorry, meant to reply sooner.
I don't know what your environment looks like, and I wouldn't try to fix it anyway—that's out of scope for a lemmy comment. I do want to mention some info that might be interesting/relevant for people reading this thread:
Exact issues and how bad they are depend heavily on your setup, such as which desktop environment you use and which software (& versions) you have installed. That seems to be a common description of ~~UX~~ problems in the Linux ecosystem, I wonder why :^)))
But hopefully I managed to spread some positivity(?) about the state of things and where we're going.
linus could use something like directory opus on amiga
No offense but what the heck do you mean by that? Every linux file Explorer I've used has been really good. WAY BETTER than Windows Explorer at the very least. Personally my favorite is Thunar
The thing that pops up when you are choosing a file to be posted/sent. Like if you want to post an image on lemmy, the dialog window that pops up to pick the file from your local storage that comes up.
What you're thinking of is something like nautilus, nemo, or dolphin.
Those are well known to be awesome, but the file picker/chooser has been shit for 20 years.
I wish there would be more Total Commander/Free Commander tools be in Linux Nemo like mass renaming, better file filtering as I type, show recursive folder structures flat, better advanced search, implemented zip/unzip and view of archives, multi folder parallel view, better tab organizaton (lock tabs, close all tabs, name tabs, clone tabs in other view).
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