I have a huge amount of appreciation for the fact that Nautilus / #GNOMEFiles can seamlessly pattern-select, batch-rename and move files both from its treeview and from search results… all with keyboard shortcuts! Extremely useful to clean up filenames.
Today, in someone else's messy folders, I was able to cleanly rename everything and eliminate at least 40 duplicates in a directory that contained over 180 files, most of which were in the wrong locations.
@nekohayo pattern selection is currently kind of an easter egg. Not sure how to make this useful tool more visible/discoverable without being awkward to anyone not familiar with glob patterns...
The performance improvement in the #GNOME Files app is fantastic (particularly, opening a directory with many entries is almost instant now). Thanks to whoever fixed that 🙏
@sonny@tamas It's the sum of multiple performance optimizations from various team members during the last couple of development cycles.
I'm not the major player there. Jeff has been the performance initiative driver and stress tester, while Khalid, Corey and Peter have each created and reviewed at least as much as I did.
My direct performance contributions have been smooth search performance in version 45 and no-reload list/grid switch in 46.
If you open a merge request to a free software project with a fair chunk of new, albeit self-contained code that is wildly different in terms of coding style—wrong indentation, wrong alignment, camelCase naming instead of snake_case, etc—I should be authorised to ask you where the code originally comes from, and if you copied and/or generated it from somewhere else, instead of relying on the honour system and assuming that you own it
@ebassi and if you do submit a merge request with a wildly different code style, know that nobody is going to take you seriously when imply the project is poorly written as your reason to stop using GNOME after the first reviews invite you to a design discussion.
I lost a month's worth of work due to middle mouse click paste.
(Panning in @penpot uses middle mouse click. I used Chromium, to isolate it from my Firefox session. Chromium always has middle click on, regardless of desktop config. Pasting in the middle of a layout messes up the layout. Moving items from one document to another is a cut and paste.)
I cut/pasted into a new board, panned (& it pasted), I hit ctrl-z to undo (2× on accident) & it undid paste — and #Penpot doesn't have history yet.
Incredibly excited for the upcoming #Nautilus#GNOME Files manager v45 release.
Assuming the handful of remaining #performance related merge requests land in time, including thumbnails multithreading, this will be the fastest, smoothest Nautilus you've ever seen on #Linux with #Tracker 3.5+
@igrok@nekohayo On the opposite side, keeping a not-actionable, negative feedback-attracting issue open after specific issues have been identified is not respectful to developers, because it's like they have done nothing to address the issue.
Like a Sisyphus punishment, where no matter how many times developers roll the performance ball up, it always rolls back down on them because it's still "slow" in some other specific way.
