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This is an idea for Dolphin. The ability to quickly and easily open a preview of any file or folder is a great feature. However, currently it is buried in the “actions submenu of the right-click menu, hardly a convenient place to access it from. I think it should be very easy to pull this up, either through a mouse button combination, right menu-button entry (not in a submenu), or keyboard hotkey combination. I also think it would be ideal for my active icon corners idea. In this mockup below the eye in the lower left-hand corner is a previewer, clicking on it pops up a large preview of the file or folder using the plasma previewer widget (identical to "right-click->actions->Preview This File" action that is already in Dolphin).






This is part of my series of Dolphin ideas

Instead of activating the preview for all files/folders by clicking on one of those actions, I think it would be better if the preview would get activated for the selected file(s) only.

How come? The preview applet already has the ability to handle multiple previews (it has a list of previews on a bar on the left).

Ah, ok, nevermind
I misunderstood something: I thought you wrote about the preview "in" dolphin, but you were talking about the preview applet