Firefox upload preview

David McGlone d.mcglone at att.net
Sat Nov 22 23:30:47 UTC 2008


On Saturday 22 November 2008 12:59:07 pm Willy Hamra wrote:
> 2008/11/22 David McGlone <d.mcglone at att.net>:
> > Is it possible to have an upload preview in firefox? it shows really
> > small thumbs beside the filename but it's too small to make out. I looked
> > for a way to make it bigger but can't find a solution.
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Dear David, this happens because Firefox is written using GTK, while
> you are used to the rest of KDE which is
> written the better looking QT. so firefox uses a GNOME-like file
> chooser menu which doesn't contain thumnails.
> this has been recently discussed on the list, and Dotan Cohen filed a
> bug on Launchpad about it. i can't remember the link, but will post it
> here when i find it. so far, it seems like they are with the idea, but
> it's too early to know, but if all goes well, the bug will be assigned
> to jaunty jackalope, and the feature will appear in kubuntu 9.04.

Ah that explains it!

-- 
David M.




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