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Modern gnome is a joke. For two years now, scrolling doesn't work in folders with many files. I can't find the issue in their bug tracker right now, but they're just like "well yeah it's not easy to fix". Like, how can you break something that fundamental in a way that makes it too hard to fix? And this isn't just some minor cosmetic issue, it literally is a showstopper if you frequently navigate large directories. Holy crap, but at least it looks pretty!

(found at least a Reddit post from three months ago that seems to be the same bug: https://old.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1129jro/nautilus_scr...)

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I had to switch from Arch + i3 to Ubuntu 23.04 and gave Gnome a try with the intention to keep using it. I like the look and feel, and the appindicator and tiling assistant extensions are all I would need.

The first thing I did (on X11) was to set fractional scaling to 125%. Changing this setting reliably renders the settings app unresponsive and it needs to be killed.

The second thing I did was to tile the settings app to the left (without having installed the tiling extension, I am talking about Gnome's tiling feature). The window gets graphically corrupted and after a few seconds I get a notification that "Ubuntu has experienced an internal error".

"Screw it", I said, "time to go Wayland, it's the future anyway". I did a couple totally benign random things and I somehow managed to cause a crash there too...

I just fetched my dotfiles and rebuilt my i3 on Ubuntu Server...

How is a reddit link relevant?

FWIW I may not have large enough directories but on the ones I just tested I didn't had this bug. I am not negating such a bug may have existed but a link to the actual gnome bug tracker would be more relevant, it may have already been fixed for all I know.

Also, are you implying that KDE or any other DE do not suffer any bug?

Last but not least, you are not forced to use Nautilus in Gnome. If Nautilus is not your preferred file manager you can perfectly live with a Gnome desktop while using Thunar (from XFCE), Nemo (from Cinnamon), PCManFM or even Dolphin if you don't mind the toolkit difference. I am personnaly using Gnome for most of my laptops but use Kitty as default terminal emulator instead of Gnome Terminal.

> And this isn't just some minor cosmetic issue, it literally is a showstopper if you frequently navigate large directories.

> are you implying that KDE or any other DE do not suffer any bug?

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> How is a reddit link relevant?

It appears the video in that post shows the bug, so, rather relevant?

The according issue seems to be[1], which has indeed been fixed two months ago, but as OP said was opened two years ago.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2971

So that was relevant until two months ago and is not right now.

Software have bugs, some are fixed quickly, other not. Dolphin (KDE file manager) also have bugs, it seems to crash for a number of reasons, also has scrolling issues, or bugs triggered by scrolling.

Do I say KDE is unusable because Dolphin can crash or has sometimes issues with scrolling. Nope that would be stupid. If I run into a bug with one among n components on a DE, I either report, fix it by patching it and supply a patch upstream, find a workaround or use temporarily an alternative component of that DE.

https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&content...

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