Bug 211007

Summary:	Preview of Video-Files through network KIOSlaves should be disabled
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Alvaro Aguilera <alvaro.aguilera>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	fabio.albieri, feathersanddown, finex, marco.gulino, mecirt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Alvaro Aguilera 2009-10-18 21:06:39 UTC

Version:           1.3 (using 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1) "release 178", KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop / openSUSE_11.1)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.31-41-desktop

(Somehow related to Bug 208625)

If I use Dolphin to access a folder containing several video files on a remote computer via SFTP, Dolphin goes crazy when I rename or mark multiple files. Each time you select a file, Dolphin tries to show me a video-preview of it, and in order to do that Dolphin starts to download the corresponding files. 


This is _very_ undesirable. I don't want Dolphin to cause any network traffic. When using KIO-slaves, all that kind of things should be, IMHO, disabled.

Comment 1 Dmitry Kholodilov 2009-11-08 17:26:30 UTC

I confirm this bug in KDE 4.3.3 (openSUSE 11.2 RC1). I experience this troubles when browse samba shares. Only when previews and tooltips are disabled, browsing shares with big video files is comfortable.
I suggest, option to disable any previews for remote files is needed.

Comment 2 FiNeX 2009-11-08 19:37:44 UTC

I agree about this wish. It should be possible to disable thumbs on non-local file systems. Specially for video files which needs to be locally downloaded for the preview generation and this slows down the network speeed.

Moreover it could cause bug like bug #208625.

Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-12-05 21:47:12 UTC

*** Bug 209875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Feathers And Down 2010-01-07 22:15:14 UTC

This is related with this:

http://forums.opensuse.org/network-internet/429736-samba-creates-multiple-copies-video-tmp.html

Well... i don't know if is necessary a complete disabling of this feature. Maybe it could only stop the transfer when the item of the preview change.

Comment 5 Alvaro Aguilera 2010-02-10 15:58:11 UTC

This bug is still present in KDE 4.4.0

Comment 6 Peter Penz 2010-02-12 14:31:10 UTC

I agree that this must be fixed, but I could not get it into KDE SC 4.4.x. As string changes are required (the configure dialog must be adjusted), this must wait until KDE SC 4.5 :-( But it has a high priority on my list and will try to fix it ASAP.

Comment 7 FiNeX 2010-02-13 14:48:30 UTC

@Peter: could you add an initial "hidden config" in a setting file so, at least who reproduced the problem, cam temporary have a workaround?

Comment 8 Fabio Albieri 2010-03-11 16:19:24 UTC

I second Finex's request.
This thing makes KDE truly problematic on my netbook.

Comment 9 Fabio Albieri 2010-03-12 21:49:29 UTC

Also, trying to play a video over a samba share make kio_smb download it locally in /tmp. Very very bad

Comment 10 Peter Penz 2010-07-01 23:13:43 UTC

This has been fixed in KDE SC 4.5: It is possible to configure the maximum preview size for remote size independent from the local maximum size. The default value is that no previews for remote files get generated.

Comment 11 FiNeX 2010-07-11 12:06:02 UTC

Thanks Peter!!! :-)