Bug 293326 - wish for easy switching between symbol+preview and details-without-preview mode
Summary: wish for easy switching between symbol+preview and details-without-preview mode
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 2.0
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
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Reported: 2012-02-04 21:31 UTC by H.H.
Modified: 2021-03-09 07:04 UTC (History)
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Description H.H. 2012-02-04 21:31:41 UTC
Version:           2.0 (using KDE 4.8.0) 
OS:                Linux

dolphin is better (faster and more intelligent) for image browsing now than gwenview (slow since kde4). big compliment for that!

For most of my dolphin usage, I use detail-view with small icons and without previews. When I want to browse some images I like to use symbol view with big preview-images. I have to click 2 times: switch to symbol mode, and then activate previews. And for the reverse again...

That's why I wish to have a button+shortcut to do that simultaneously. Perhaps a pseudo-mode "image-browsing"?

Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
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OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.37.6-0.11-desktop
Compiler: gcc
Comment 1 Peter Penz 2012-02-04 21:46:11 UTC
> dolphin is better (faster and more intelligent) for image browsing now

Thanks! For 4.8.1 already a lot of small improvements have been done (e.g. in 4.8.0 landscape images are scaled way too small) and I hope you'll like it.

> I have to click 2 times: switch to symbol mode, and then
> activate previews. And for the reverse again...

I understand. Just to be sure that I don't miss something: I assume you have enabled the option "General -> Behavior -> (x) Use common view properties for all folders"? I also use the details view for most directories (well now with 2.0 also quite often the compact view...) and for my image folders I too use the icons view + previews. But as I've enabled "(x) Remember view properties for each folder" I don't need to switch at all.

So do I understand correctly that you usually also want to use the details view for image-folders but only want to switch "temporary" on demand? I just try to understand why you use the "Use common..."-setting instead of the "Remember view props"-setting.
Comment 2 H.H. 2012-02-04 22:11:18 UTC
thanks for your quick response. yes, I use common view for all folders. for me the option, to remember the view for each folder, was always useless (it already exists in windows-95,..), because folders, which I never viewed before, then always show the last activated view, which may be view-mode-x, when switching from view-mode-xx, which is very annoying. so that would be no option for me.

so btw another wish: that option would be usable for me, if I could define a predefined view for folders, which don't have a remembered view.

but also things like foreign usb-sticks,.. would not be covered by the remember-view-option.
Comment 3 Peter Penz 2012-02-04 22:20:49 UTC
> because folders, which I never viewed before, then
> always show the last activated view

Hm, thats not the case in Dolphin. You can configure the default view you want to have for folders you don't have visited: Go to a directory which has the view you'd like as default, choose "View -> Adjust View Properties... -> [x] Use these view properties as default". You can also apply the current folder settings recursively to all sub-folders in this dialog.

Does this solve your problem?
Comment 4 H.H. 2012-02-04 22:38:51 UTC
ah, good hidden option :-) this solves my "second" wish :-) I'll try this option now.

still I think my original wish stays. for example to quickly view some images in a mixed folder, view foreign usb sticks with images, or even to use the remember-view-feature for easy defining the view for image-folders.
Comment 5 Peter Penz 2012-02-05 08:54:37 UTC
> still I think my original wish stays

Sure. I somehow like the idea too.
Comment 6 Jekyll Wu 2012-08-18 14:30:24 UTC
same as bug 230244?
Comment 7 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:22:27 UTC
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Comment 8 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 02:18:29 UTC
Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.
Comment 9 H.H. 2021-03-09 07:04:11 UTC
This is still valid