Bug 247318

Summary: intelligent folder icons depending on content
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: KDE Brainstorm Submissions <brainstorm>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Unspecified   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description KDE Brainstorm Submissions 2010-08-11 02:10:32 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                unspecified

Situation: Dolphin shows a folder using a symbol for a typical paper office-folder.

If this folder contains one or more pictures Dolphin shows up to 4 miniature pictures of these ontop of the folder symbol. That's nice, but if the folder is a cd audio album it should only present the folder.jpg picture album cover and nothing else.

Proposal: Any folder should either be of 'default type' or of a defined intelligently adapted type, depending on the folder content. If a folder contains mp3 files and pictures it is probably an audio cd folder and the folder icon should automatically show the picture 'folder.jpg' within the image of a cd jewel case.

If a folder contains pictures the folder typ would be picture album.
If the folder countains pdf files it might be a documents folder or a bookshelf.

In a videos folder, there any file should have an icon according to the cover of the video dvd, e.g. for the icon of a movie called terminator.avi a picture file called terminator.png should be used within a picture like a dvd case.

Perhaps every folder type could be represented by a typical icon with content-oriented previews of the containing files.


This feature request was originally submitted through KDE Brainstorm, and has been submitted to Bugzilla due to popular demand. Original idea: http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=84087

Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:22:27 UTC
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-01-29 19:33:06 UTC
The proposed use case works as intended now in Dolphin 17.12: folders that contain a single image and a bunch of audio or video files now shows only the image on the folder.