Today I noticed that in KDE 4 when I hover over e.g. a picture, then the tooltip would display a larger preview of the picture. In plasma next, however, this is not the case. Instead, it simply displays the image the same size as it does on the desktop already, and when I turn the preview option for the folder view off, the tooltip displays the same generic icon as the desktop. So I'm not really sure if the preview is broken or if that's intended behaviour.
This is currently expected, tooltips will be shown more love after 5.0.
Git commit 718afb65e1cd9d257e0bd40d1a8f4596fd670d89 by Eike Hein. Committed on 06/08/2014 at 09:22. Pushed by hein into branch 'master'. Add some basic scaffolding for icon size prop change notifications. Along with a giant TODO KF6 explaining how we'd do it if it weren't for BC. Reviewed-by: David Faure CCMAIL:faure@kde.org CCMAIL:bhush94@gmail.com M +33 -1 src/filewidgets/kabstractviewadapter.h M +2 -0 src/filewidgets/kfilepreviewgenerator.cpp M +14 -13 src/filewidgets/kfilepreviewgenerator.h http://commits.kde.org/kio/718afb65e1cd9d257e0bd40d1a8f4596fd670d89
Sorry, the above should have gone into bug 337862.
Git commit face7bb100702908582b61d4a847120e8e6e13c6 by Eike Hein. Committed on 10/08/2014 at 17:51. Pushed by hein into branch 'master'. Allow toggling tooltips per-instance and default them to off. Between the relative lack of metadata extraction and the quirks in Plasma's tooltips right now they're more annoying than useful, and besides their usefulness generally varies with the nature of the folder being viewed. CCMAIL:bhush94@gmail.com M +5 -2 containments/folder/package/contents/config/main.xml M +7 -0 containments/folder/package/contents/ui/ConfigIcons.qml M +1 -1 containments/folder/package/contents/ui/ItemDelegate.qml http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/face7bb100702908582b61d4a847120e8e6e13c6
Marking this as a junior job!
Still valid. Would be nice if Folder View could display the same rich tooltip that Dolphin has. Probably that should be extracted into a framework to facilitate this.
Tooltips thumbnails are mostly useless right now because they're even smaller than the actual icon. I was about to open an issue about it.