Hello!

If I enable preview for PDF files I get thumbnails for PDF files in every view dolphin creates.
So I turned it off because while it is nice to see a glimpse of file content in the "symbol" or "compact" view I really prefer to have icons indicating the file type in "details" view.

How can I get at least a preview in the side pane or another preview to get a quick look at whats in the file before firing up an okular window?
(similar to Apple's "quickview" function for example... )

Is there a way to get a "preview on hover over"-effect?

Thx for any help,
piedro

piedro wrote:How can I get at least a preview in the side pane or another preview to get a quick look at whats in the file before firing up an okular window?

Enable previews for PDF files in Dolphin's settings->General->Previews, and you'll get a preview in the "Informations" sidebar when you hover over a PDF file or select it.

Is there a way to get a "preview on hover over"-effect?

Enable "Show tooltips" in Dolphin's settings->General->Behavior, and you'll get a tooltip with informations about the file when you hover over it.
If previews are enabled for the specific filetype (see above), this will contain a preview too.

Thx for your help!

The previews work nicely, I know that and use it for image files.

But my issue is that I do not want the file type icons for text, office and pdf files replaced by those tiny little preview thumbnails.
Still I'd like a preview in the information side pane and/or as a mouse over effect...

in short:
- standard icons (no preview thumbnails) in the file/folder list
- preview in the information area and as mouse over effect

Otherwise a folder full of odt and pdf text documents (like invoices) will just show many undistinguishable white rectangular thumbnails.

Any ideas?
thx, piedro

piedro wrote:Any ideas?

If you disable previews in general (via the toolbar button or the menu entry in "View"), but enable the preview for PDF files in the place I mentioned, you will get previews for PDF files in the informations side bar and the tooltips, but not the icons.

At least that's how it works here with dolphin 15.04.3.

That works exactly as I hoped!

Thank you a lot for this insight and your patience,
I am quite happy now,
cheers, piedro

I have preview for jpg , image files, but not for pdf ! I checked if there was pdf setting to check, but no....is there some packages to setup ?

St??phane ANCELOT wrote:I have preview for jpg , image files, but not for pdf ! I checked if there was pdf setting to check, but no....is there some packages to setup ?

running Plasma 5 then see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353714 & for a dirty work around https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353714