Bug 466871

Summary:	unable to lower preview size limit below 1MiB (insufficient precision)
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	SC <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	kfm-devel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	22.12.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description SC 2023-03-05 08:20:47 UTC

In Dolphin > Configure > General > Previews, there is an option for "Skip previews for remote files above", where the user can specify a size limit. However it seems like the minimum increment (and therefore the minimum size) is 1MiB, which in my opinion is insufficient precision for many remote connections.

I for example own several VPSes on another continent over not-so-fast connections, so I actually want to set this value to something like 50KiB. But currently this is not possible, at least not on the GUI. It's either 1MiB or no previews at all.

Ideally these dialogs can accept arbitrary units. Maybe have two fields instead of one (first accepts a number, second accepts a unit)?

Comment 1 SC 2023-03-05 08:38:08 UTC

And in case anyone else comes across this need before it's fixed, the corresponding config entry is `MaximumRemoteSize` in `~/.config/kdeglobals`. You can edit this value in the file directly and it does seem to work, but it will be reset to 0 the next time you change any dolphin configurations graphically.