Bug 513832

Summary: Enable thumbnails on a per folder basis utilising the "Remember display style for each folder" option.
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: funkybomber
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: aristsakas, dolphin-bugs-null
Priority: NOR Keywords: geezer-jobs
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
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OS: Linux   
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Description funkybomber 2025-12-26 10:59:49 UTC
My proposal:

Dolphin already supports "Remember display style for each folder". I suggest we make thumbnail previews to be preserved on a per folder basis when "Remember display style for each folder" is enabled.

My reasoning:
The current implementation of generating thumbnails has two disadvantages:
1) Thumbnail previews for every video (even when it's not needed) just wastes resources (processing power and disk space).
2) Thumbnail previews generated indiscriminately for all folders when a user needs them only for a specific folder creates visual clutter. That is especially true in folders where the user has selected the Compact View with very small icons. Thumbnails in these circumstances offer little, so the user should be given the option to pick and choose WHERE they want to have thumbnails.
Comment 1 aristsakas 2026-01-02 15:35:24 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 406725 ***