Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

[Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au>]

On 06/07/2015 10:42 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 07/06/2015 14:24, Mick wrote:
>> On Sunday 07 Jun 2015 13:03:05 Paul Klos wrote:
>>> Op zondag 7 juni 2015 17:42:37 schreef Andrew Lowe:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>     Under KDE, which I use, when you go to move/copy a file and it
>>>>
>>>> already exists in the destination, you get a dialogue pop up with a
>>>> heading of "File already exists", it says in the dialogue "Source" and
>>>> "Destination" with the respective paths underneath then underneath that
>>>> a big expanse of nothing then below that some stuff including the
>>>> Overwrite/Skip/Cancel buttons.
>>>>
>>>> 	My question relate to the expanse of nothingness. For example, if I'm
>>>>
>>>> moving/copying image files, should there be a preview of the two files
>>>> in this nothingness? Is there some USE flag I've stuffed up that has
>>>> disabled this. This happens, in my experience with Dolphin and
>>>> Gwenview,
>>>> but I'm assuming they both use a standard Qt/KDE dialogue so others
>>>> probably display this behaviour as well.
>>>>
>>>> 	Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
>>>> 	
>>>> 		Andrew
>>>
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>
>>> If I try to copy a file that already exists in the destination folder, I
>>> do indeed get preview images and some metadata, not a vast expanse of
>>> nothingness.
>>>
>>> For example, when copying a jpg  the dialog shows thumbnails of the
>>> source and the destination, and underneath each image the type, size,
>>> width, height and the date it was last modified.
>>>
>>> Below that is an input field where an alternative name can be entered,
>>> which presumably you still have. Finally there are the buttons.
>>>
>>> As for what triggers the presence/absence of the preview, I have no
>>> idea.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>> From what I recall, in a full KDE desktop you will see previews only if you 
>> have clicked on View/Previews to enable it.  This will create loads of 
>> thumbnails of various files so that the preview can show these.
>>
>> Have you tried this?
>>
> 
> 
> I have that enabled, but previews still do not show up in the "file
> already exists" dialog. They do however show up in dolphin's sidebar
> panel (activated with F11)
> 
> So there is something else here that also plays a role
> 
Same here.