SUMMARY Just a suggestion to add an option to disable the autoplay of videos. As I'm cycling though photos, I prefer that videos don't play until I choose to press the play button. Perhaps also make it disabled by default as this seems more consistent with KDE defaults. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open digiKam, preview a photo or video 2. Switch between photos and videos with the keyboard or arrow tool buttons OBSERVED RESULT When landing on a video, it begins playing automatically EXPECTED RESULT At least have an option for it wait for me to tell it I would actually like to play the video at that time by pressing the play button SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian Gnu/Linux 13 KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2
I see this completely differently. Every time you scroll through the preview, you'd fall into a black hole or an empty widget with no content. If the sound bothers you, you can turn it down. I really don't like the behavior with Gwenview, for example, where the video doesn't start and you have to press play every time. Maik
Well, it may not be everyone's preference. But I personally find it disruptive to have a video start playing when cycling through a long list of photos. I usually keep my volume at a moderate level because I don't expect things to start playing without my request. I think it's the only application in my KDE desktop that behaves that way without an option to disable it. Blocking autoplay has been a highly demanded feature in Firefox ever since auto-playing videos became a thing, I personally would not use a browser without it. It's also an accessibility issue which I know KDE has been trying to work on. Unexpected motion and sound can trigger a lot of issues for a lot of people. But all this is all just a suggestion... I don't really have the ability to help so I'll just leave it here.
Git commit 766fdf4eae596218709811fca55480a0caf5a8ad by Maik Qualmann. Committed on 20/10/2025 at 19:31. Pushed by mqualmann into branch 'master'. add preview option to disable auto play of videos FIXED-IN: 8.9.0 M +1 -1 NEWS M +2 -0 core/libs/settings/applicationsettings.cpp M +3 -0 core/libs/settings/applicationsettings.h M +10 -0 core/libs/settings/applicationsettings_iconview.cpp M +2 -0 core/libs/settings/applicationsettings_p.h M +12 -1 core/libs/video/player/QtAVPlayer/mediaplayerview.cpp M +12 -1 core/libs/video/player/qtmm/mediaplayerview.cpp M +8 -1 core/utilities/setup/album/setupalbumview.cpp https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/766fdf4eae596218709811fca55480a0caf5a8ad