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Thumbnails in Nyxt-native file chooser #2183

Open aartaka opened 2 years ago

aartaka commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Thumbnails in file pickers are a basic yet a rare feature. Just look at this blog post for an example of the irritation cause by the file picker WebKit uses.

Describe the solution you'd like Showing thumbnails for images in file-manager-mode prompt. Not necessarily huge ones -- even the icon-size ones would work. Smal thumbnails will still cause some associative thoughts and help with navigation.

Ambrevar commented 2 years ago

Nice idea!

aadcg commented 1 year ago

I have 2 observations:

(1) Fitting thumbnails in the prompt buffer would account to a subpar UI. Prompt buffer space is precious and the height of each line should be allocated to text only.

(2) Adding thumbnails to other interfaces would be interesting. But the subject for an external extension.

aartaka commented 1 year ago

(1) Fitting thumbnails in the prompt buffer would account to a subpar UI. Prompt buffer space is precious and the height of each line should be allocated to text only.

If we make thumbnails to be the same height as text, that will have all the convenience with retained space efficiency.

aadcg commented 1 year ago

Good point! When the day comes to improve the file manager facilities, we should highly consider it.

aadcg commented 8 months ago

Related to #2264.