Bug 200018

Summary:	Merge JPEG and generic image thumbnailer into one
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kio-extras	Reporter:	Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component:	Thumbnails and previews	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	a.samirh78, finex, kdelibs-bugs-null, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	21.07.80
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2009-07-13 12:24:44 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.90)

Dolphin has such entries (settings -> general -> previews)
[ ] jpeg
[ ] image files

What will happen if I set image files but not jpeg? Or vice versa? I think the most obvious UI here is the list of checkboxes
[ ] category : file lists

for example:
[ ] images: jpg, png, gif
[ ] documents: odt, doc, pdf
[ ] ...

this way it is easy to find a category and also it is immediately obvious what filetypes are supported.

Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-07-13 12:48:44 UTC

I agree with Maciej. Eventually it should simply be changed the label to:

[ ] image files: jpg
[ ] image files: other formats (png, gif, ...)

Comment 2 Peter Penz 2009-07-13 14:15:13 UTC

I agree with you, but it is tricky from an implementation point of view: Dolphin just lists all available preview plugins and has no clue about the semantics of a preview plugin. There is a separate plugin for JPEGs in addition to a generic image plugin because some special handling is done in the JPEG plugin (fast decoding of JPEGs when the preview size is very small).

A kind of category would be useful. Hmm, maybe this can be achieved by analyzing the used mime types and group them...

Comment 3 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:20:01 UTC

Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719

Comment 4 Ahmad Samir 2021-07-27 22:26:00 UTC

Those thumbnailers are now in kio-extras.