Bug 164695

Summary:	It's not possible to view metadata of files using Dolphin
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Marcelo Sales <mmtsales>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	emdeck, georg298, kde-maintainers, pano_90
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Marcelo Sales 2008-06-22 21:44:46 UTC

Version:           1.0.99 (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

Dolphin does not offer any option for the user to view file metadata, like the resolution of image/video files, ID3 tags in MP3 files, etc. This information is not shown neither in the tooltips baloons for files nor in the file properties dialog and it's necessary to open the file in an specialized application if one wants to see its metadata.

I think this option, which existed in Konqueror, is excellent for quick viewing useful information about the file.

By the way, thanks for Dolphin and congratulations for creating such a fine file manager.

Comment 1 Michał D. (Emdek) 2008-10-19 14:27:48 UTC

This very useful feature of KDE3 times that is currently missing.
Currently if you want to check size of image you must open it in editor or viewer, which is nor comfortable. The same situation exists for other file types, such as videos, you must open it in player to check length of the movie. Also information about text files is missing...

Comment 2 Panagiotis Papadopoulos 2008-10-26 18:47:24 UTC

I really hope it will be implemented in KDE 4.3, as it probably won't make it into 4.2, according to a comment on peter penz' blog:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=591179528445148028&postID=7115443783890595012

Comment 3 Peter Penz 2008-11-15 20:57:33 UTC

SVN commit 884782 by ppenz:

added metainfo-support for album, artist, genre, width, height, lines, title, type and tracknumber

BUG: 163066
BUG: 164695

 M  +10 -9     infosidebarpage.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=884782

Comment 4 Georg Hennig 2008-12-10 18:17:27 UTC

Hi,

thanks for that option, I'm using 4.1.3 with that patch.
Sometimes it's working. Not with jpegs, for example. But I guess it's not a dolphin issue. I hope with kde 4.2 this will be solved.

But how about showing really useful information: Iso equivalent, exposure time, aperture, date+time when the image was taken, used lens, focal distance, camera manufacturer, ...
As it was with konqueror in kde 3.5.
Mainly for raw image files that is critical to find out, which image you have selected, because you can't just open them in gwenview or similar.

Georg