Bug 337167

Summary:	Better file preview and more metadata in tooltips, like in Dolphin
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Philipp Stefan <neptunecat34>
Component:	Desktop icons & Folder View widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	fernandommuniz, nate, panchopapada, sitter, tomashnyk
Priority:	NOR	Flags:	neptunecat34: VisualDesign+
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Philipp Stefan 2014-07-07 08:48:06 UTC

Today I noticed that in KDE 4 when I hover over e.g. a picture, then the tooltip would display a larger preview of the picture.
In plasma next, however, this is not the case. Instead, it simply displays the image the same size as it does on the desktop already, and when I turn the preview option for the folder view off, the tooltip displays the same generic icon as the desktop.
So I'm not really sure if the preview is broken or if that's intended behaviour.

Comment 1 Eike Hein 2014-07-07 11:34:39 UTC

This is currently expected, tooltips will be shown more love after 5.0.

Comment 2 Eike Hein 2014-08-06 09:25:03 UTC

Git commit 718afb65e1cd9d257e0bd40d1a8f4596fd670d89 by Eike Hein.
Committed on 06/08/2014 at 09:22.
Pushed by hein into branch 'master'.

Add some basic scaffolding for icon size prop change notifications.

Along with a giant TODO KF6 explaining how we'd do it if it weren't
for BC.

Reviewed-by: David Faure
CCMAIL:faure@kde.org
CCMAIL:bhush94@gmail.com

M  +33   -1    src/filewidgets/kabstractviewadapter.h
M  +2    -0    src/filewidgets/kfilepreviewgenerator.cpp
M  +14   -13   src/filewidgets/kfilepreviewgenerator.h

http://commits.kde.org/kio/718afb65e1cd9d257e0bd40d1a8f4596fd670d89

Comment 3 Eike Hein 2014-08-06 09:28:09 UTC

Sorry, the above should have gone into bug 337862.

Comment 4 Eike Hein 2014-08-10 17:54:09 UTC

Git commit face7bb100702908582b61d4a847120e8e6e13c6 by Eike Hein.
Committed on 10/08/2014 at 17:51.
Pushed by hein into branch 'master'.

Allow toggling tooltips per-instance and default them to off.

Between the relative lack of metadata extraction and the
quirks in Plasma's tooltips right now they're more annoying
than useful, and besides their usefulness generally varies
with the nature of the folder being viewed.
CCMAIL:bhush94@gmail.com

M  +5    -2    containments/folder/package/contents/config/main.xml
M  +7    -0    containments/folder/package/contents/ui/ConfigIcons.qml
M  +1    -1    containments/folder/package/contents/ui/ItemDelegate.qml

http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/face7bb100702908582b61d4a847120e8e6e13c6

Comment 5 Eike Hein 2014-08-10 17:55:13 UTC

Marking this as a junior job!

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2020-01-23 19:19:56 UTC

Still valid. Would be nice if Folder View could display the same rich tooltip that Dolphin has. Probably that should be extracted into a framework to facilitate this.

Comment 7 José 2020-12-12 02:05:16 UTC

Tooltips thumbnails are mostly useless right now because they're even smaller than the actual icon.
I was about to open an issue about it.

Comment 8 tomashnyk 2025-10-09 21:37:02 UTC

*** Bug 492452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 tomashnyk 2025-10-09 21:37:59 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6)
> Still valid. Would be nice if Folder View could display the same rich
> tooltip that Dolphin has. Probably that should be extracted into a framework
> to facilitate this.

Oh yes, still valid on 6.4, doing the same thing as Dolphin does would be awesome.