Gnome 46 is out

You know, I bet you could hack together a daemon that watches inode changes and generates them for you.
Can't be too hard, right Gnomies?

Here's the python just because you're a naughty boy.

Just images.

import os
import subprocess
import hashlib
from urllib.parse import quote
from watchdog.observers import Observer
from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler

def generate_thumbnail(filename, thumbnail_dir):
file_uri = 'file://' + quote(os.path.abspath(filename))
hash_md5 = hashlib.md5(file_uri.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
thumbnail_path = os.path.join(thumbnail_dir, hash_md5 + '.png')

os.makedirs(thumbnail_dir, exist_ok=True)

command = f'/usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer -s 256 "{filename}" "{thumbnail_path}"'
subprocess.run(command, shell=True)

class ThumbnailHandler(FileSystemEventHandler):
def on_created(self, event):
if not event.is_directory:
generate_thumbnail(event.src_path, self.thumbnail_dir)

def on_modified(self, event):
if not event.is_directory:
generate_thumbnail(event.src_path, self.thumbnail_dir)

def __init__(self, thumbnail_dir):
self.thumbnail_dir = thumbnail_dir

def process_existing_files(directory, thumbnail_dir):
for root, _, files in os.walk(directory):
for filename in files:
file_path = os.path.join(root, filename)
generate_thumbnail(file_path, thumbnail_dir)

def main():
pictures_directory = os.path.expanduser('~/Pictures/')
thumbnail_dir = os.path.expanduser('~/.cache/thumbnails/normal')

process_existing_files(pictures_directory, thumbnail_dir)

event_handler = ThumbnailHandler(thumbnail_dir)
observer = Observer()
observer.schedule(event_handler, pictures_directory, recursive=True)
observer.start()

try:
while True:
observer.join(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
observer.stop()
observer.join()

if __name__ == "__main__":
main()

Too late, I already hacked together a whole filepicker so we don't even have to deal with Gnomies
https://github.com/dvhar/pikeru

Freetards really make UIs like this and don't see an issue

So far I've been trying a few things and the only one that annoys me is that fullscreen youtube videos have some trouble. mpv works fine (all the gnome bullshit aside) with VRR. Games do as well.