Bug 189501

Summary: Preview size limit too restrictive
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Greg Trounson <gregtr>
Component: generalAssignee: Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: bluedzins
Priority: NOR    
Version: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Greg Trounson 2009-04-13 02:57:02 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

The File Preview function in Konqueror/Dolphin has a maximum file size limit of 100 MB.  Therefore any files larger than 100MB will not have any previews enabled.  This severely limits its usefulness for large images and video content, and is a regression from KDE 3.

Nautilus 2.24 suffers from this too, but with a 1GB restriction so it's less of a problem.

With people now using computers as HD media centres I would recommend letting the user choose "0 MB" for "no maximum file size", or if an upper limit must be imposed, something more sensible like 10GB.

Steps to duplicate:
Open Dolphin
Click Settings->Configure Dolphin
Click View Modes
In the File Previews pane, notice the "Maximum file size" slider and spinbox can be moved from 1 to 100 MB.
Comment 1 Maciej Pilichowski 2009-06-01 20:33:21 UTC 
This is duplicate of
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161862
Comment 2 Peter Penz 2010-04-13 20:28:34 UTC 
SVN commit 1114485 by ppenz:

Allow configuring different maximum sizes for remote and local files

BUG: 189501
p://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3484/

 M  +50 -56    previewssettingspage.cpp  
 M  +2 -5      previewssettingspage.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1114485