Bug 434394

Summary: Show length of media files also in minutes when they are longer than 60 minutes
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Daniel <daniel-other+kdebug>
Component: view-engine: tooltipAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: kfm-devel, nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version: 20.12.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Daniel 2021-03-14 13:39:11 UTC 
SUMMARY
Currently, the length of media files is displayed in the format hh:mm:ss. However, for example for movies it is common to find the length specified in minutes (on Wikipedia, the leaflet etc).

Converting to minutes is obviously not difficult, but in could be as well displayed directly in brackets behind the length in the current format, for the ease of use. Obviously, this would only be needed if the media file is longer than 60 minutes.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-03-15 15:15:02 UTC 
 Not sure this is worth it. Converting in your head isn't really very hard. :)
Comment 2 Daniel 2021-03-15 15:45:20 UTC 
I get your point, but with the same argument you could as well not have the timezone conversion for the plasma clock (just add/subtract one/one-half hour, etc).

It's not like there are dozens of other relevant length formats, so showing the length in minutes for files over 1h length would be quite handy, as multiplying the hours by 60 and adding them to the minutes is very simple, of course, but if you have to deal with many such long files (and check if they match a specific length in minutes) it is a bit annoying…

Also adding this teeny tiny feature doesn't require much code or other dependencies IMHO. But I'm open for discussions :=)
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-03-15 16:12:25 UTC 
> but if you have to deal with many such long files (and check if they match
> a specific length in minutes) it is a bit annoying…
Thanks for explaining your use case; that helps.