Fairly self explanatory, but basically the two things I've always wished for:

1. For Dolphin to preview video files in the right pane, just as it does with audio and pictures.

2. For a docker I can place above the "places" docker that shows the most recently used folders. I'm forever jumping between a handful of folders over and over again, but not the same folders I was jumping between yesterday (so adding them to Places isn't effective). It doesn't even need to be perfect. If it just listed folders that Dolphin / the KDE file open/save dialogues know were used, that would really cover 99.9% of it. Heck, even if it *only* covered folders used by dolphin, it would be a huge step up.

Kubuntiac wrote:Fairly self explanatory, but basically the two things I've always wished for:

1. For Dolphin to preview video files in the right pane, just as it does with audio and pictures.

that should be fully working already - you can play the video file on the information panel.
or you could try installing mplayer-thumbs, if you want thumbnails of the videos instead

Hmmm... ok. I don't seem to have it working on either a Chakra or a Kubuntu install, and I don't see any category in the Preferences > General > Previews list that looks like it would include media files, either.

(I'm just trying to preview the file in the information panel, not get a thumbnail btw).

in openSUSE there is a package kdemultimedia4-thumbnailers (you might not have the "4") that contains videopreview.so that may be providing the functionality you're looking for

Interesting. I installed those and rebooted. Now I'm able to preview .m2t files (fairly obscure, format based on mp2 used mainly in high end sony cameras), but it still doesn't preview bog standard h264 .mp4 files, although dragon plays them fine. They're all just done through phonon aren't they?

(Side note: Am I the only one to whom this new forum theme makes me feel like I'm posting bug comments to Bugzilla...)

I am able to preview avi, flv, mp4, mpg and m4v files,

I thought the previews were done through mPlayer but I don't actually know

assuming kdemultimedia4-thumbnailers is the correct package enabling video previews there is a config app called mplayerthumbsconfig allowing the choice of backend (either phonon or mPlayer) maybe try switching