elementary
File picker does not have option for large thumbnails or grid view
What Happened
There is no obvious option to view large thumbnails. Currently, it appears that the file picker only has a List View with tiny thumbnails. This makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to pick images visually. Even 5.1.7 Hera's file picker had slightly larger thumbnails.
Expected Behavior
The File picker should have an option to list files in Grid View (multiple sizes available) or List View, similar to how the Files interface provides a Grid or List View.
EDIT: The 6.0 File picker does display a large thumbnail to the right of the list, but this is to report the lack of a real grid view. A user should not need to click though multiple files to see if the thumbnail is the correct one.
Steps to Reproduce
Use any app that opens a File Picker.
Logs
Platform Information
OS: elementary OS 6 Odin x86_64 Kernel: 5.11.0-27-generic Packages: 1699 (dpkg), 20 (flatpak) Shell: bash 5.0.17 Resolution: 3840x2160 DE: Pantheon WM: Mutter(Gala) Theme: io.elementary.stylesheet.blueberry [GTK3] Icons: elementary [GTK3] Terminal: io.elementary.t CPU: Intel Xeon W3680 (12) @ 3.326GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 Memory: 1370MiB / 24047MiB
At the moment the FIles filechooser is mostly the native Gtk.FIleChooser. In the future, it is intended to use the FileChooser portal to provide a more customised filechooser where such things may be possible.
Reproducible on elementary 8.
What about the portal you mentioned? Did anything change?
In the future, it is intended to use the FileChooser portal to provide a more customised filechooser where such things may be possible.
I have started to experiment with an extended l function filechooser using Files widgets rather than the Gtk.FileChooserWidget. See #2679. This has the same zooming capability as Files. At the moment only ListView is implemented but I intend to implement IconView as well. Note that this is intended to implement only the freedesktop portal specification rather than used directly in apps.