Bug 453211

Summary: [Feature Request] Disable Preview in the Information Panel for Mouseover
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Berthold Lorke <social>
Component: panels: informationAssignee: Oliver Beard <olib141>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: kfm-devel, nate, olib141
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/commit/278380bf176ec4488f3a55043a7502310f60fde6 Version Fixed In: 23.08
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Berthold Lorke 2022-04-29 22:24:32 UTC 
When the information panel is open, while the cursor hovers over a file, that file is then previewed instead of the actually highlighted file.  The preview goes back to the highlighted file when you move the cursor away.

Also seen here https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/fflp37/disable_preview_from_mouse_hover_in_dolphin/

This is a big annoyance, especially when media like a video is playing in the information panel, and while scrolling through the folder, it is desired to have the file keep playing during this.  But as soon as the cursor rests for a short while, the actually selected video stops playing in the information panel, and the panel switches to the file that the cursor hovers over.

As far as I can tell it is not currently possible to disable this.  It would be nice if this were possible, and it should be easy to implement this option.
Comment 1 Bug Janitor Service 2023-02-05 20:41:02 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/501
Comment 2 Oliver Beard 2023-03-25 15:13:43 UTC 
Git commit 278380bf176ec4488f3a55043a7502310f60fde6 by Oliver Beard.
Committed on 25/03/2023 at 10:01.
Pushed by felixernst into branch 'master'.

panels/information: Add option to not show information for hovered item
Related: bug 364956

M  +4    -0    src/panels/information/dolphin_informationpanelsettings.kcfg
M  +18   -10   src/panels/information/informationpanel.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/commit/278380bf176ec4488f3a55043a7502310f60fde6