Summary: | Advanced preview for Dolphin with selection | ||
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Product: | [Applications] dolphin | Reporter: | KDE Brainstorm Submissions <brainstorm> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | wishlist | CC: | bugzilla, friiduh, markg85, nate |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 16.12.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Unlisted Binaries | ||
OS: | Unspecified | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
KDE Brainstorm Submissions
2010-08-11 02:27:38 UTC
The mockup is too big for an attachment, so here is a link to the original: http://saukonpaa.com/videos/preview.gif Although i generally like the idea of bigger previews when hovering an image i don't like the idea to basically embed gwenview (or just some photo viewer) in dolphin. And it seems it's not needed at all! Did you know of the "show tooltips" option? Go to: Configure Dolphin -> General -> Behavior now check "Show tooltips" ^_^ isn't that all you need? The tooltip previews are tiny and lack the navigation and selection features seen here. I like the idea as it is shown in the mockup! I'd also like to see this for sound files *gg*. (In reply to comment #4) > I like the idea as it is shown in the mockup! I'd also like to see this for > sound files *gg*. Yes, the sound file (and video?) previews would be nice. GNOME 3 got this. I couldn't find the blog post from planet.gnome.org now but it had siniwave on it. It were not actually a like my suggested preview window but the icons had the sini waves as thumbnails. I tought sawing that it was wonderfull idea. As we have thumbnails as small preview for pictures, we need to see them, so size does matter and so on we need bigger preview for photos. But for audio, we do not need to see them bigger, we need to hear them. So for them it works better when you can hear the audio file when you hover over it, no matter do you have selected one, multiple or none of the files. With photos it does not work so well if we dont get bigger preview and then we need some way to select them and keep selection of earlier ones. I'il add another opinion in here since things changed quite a bit in possibilities since my last made a comment. Previously there was no such thing as QML (or not in Qt anyway)! The apple like example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPgxoGMaaR0 and the http://saukonpaa.com/videos/preview.gif example both became real possibilities with Qt's introduction of QML and Qt5. Why? Well, to make this happen in the current dolphin or dolphin 2 a LOT of code has to be added in dolphin to make a preview feature like the mac's finder one possible. The animated gif example is easier to make but even then it's far from trival to make that in Qt's QWidget system. With Dolphin 2 things become somewhat easier to implement but still not trival. However, in QML the animated gif example becomes easy to implement since Dolphin 2 already uses QGraphics (right?) so all we need there is someone to implement it. The more advanced option of doing the same like Mac's finder is now also possible -- ignoring for a moment if we should want that -- It becomes possible since we now have: - Phonon QML element (for playing audio/video) - Image QML element (exists since QML exists) So all we need on top of that is the ability to preview other file formats. Dolphin internally already has that code so it would be nice if someone could take that en make a QML thingy of it which in turn needs to find it's way in dolphin. As a side effect that will probably also make the dolphin codebase cleaner i guess. Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719 This seems like an almost exact duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272539, which would indeed be very nice (before switching to Linux with KDE software, I was a Mac user since forever and made heavy use of that feature). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 272539 *** |