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Caja, the file manager for the MATE desktop
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Caja should have fixed file previews #1309

Open sixsixfive opened 5 years ago

sixsixfive commented 5 years ago

Expected behavior

Caja should have fixed image preview size (like Thunar) to make it possible to work with the files even if the preview is loading.

Actual behavior

Caja is constantly adjusting the preview size/scrolling until all previews are created, Caja is completely unusable for that time making it unusable for anything art related stuff

Steps to reproduce the behavior

just open any directory with thousands of image files

a video that compares Thunar with Caja: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12e8j-gMmvSpS9SqAdW1nxiSVukjMTVa2/view?usp=sharing

The folder for testing: https://gitlab.com/sixsixfive/DarK-icons/-/archive/master/DarK-icons-master.tar.bz2

MATE general version

1.22.1

Package version

1.22.1

Ph0rkoz commented 4 years ago

remove caja, install nemo

lukefromdc commented 4 years ago

A workaround is to turn previewing off while working with the offending directory, then turn it back on afterwards

annada-behera commented 4 years ago

@sixsixfive Why did you nuked the Hedera icon set? I loved those icons.

sixsixfive commented 4 years ago

A workaround is to turn previewing off while working with the offending directory, then turn it back on afterwards

That doesn't seem to make much sense. Currently I just uninstalled Caja and use Thunar instead.

@annada-behera It is not nuked, just moved ( https://gitlab.com/sixsixfive/Hedera-icons ). It will probably be recreated in the future - just with monotone icons for small sizes since colorful small icons are too much work.

annada-behera commented 4 years ago

@sixsixfive Please don't do that. The color icons with gradient and looks "classic" and are beautiful. Do something else like HederaMono or something, but please leave Hedera alone. I absolutely adore Hedera. And Hedera is a complete icon set, and I've never encountered any missing icon. So, update it but don't make it monochrome. Please.

lukefromdc commented 4 years ago

While I use a different icon set based on the circa 2008 UbuntuStudio and 2005 GNOME icon sets, I agree that monochrome icons don't look good to me. That said, icon choices and theme choices are very personal. If you like the old version of a "new and improved" icon set, download it and it it's something your distro installs the new version of, rename it. Then drop the whole directory in /usr/share/icons and make sure index.theme is named that and not index.theme.in unless you need translations for the theming GUI. In that case, the usual ./autogen.sh make make install process with the original name over what your distro installed will also work.