102

Images and video previews in dolphin are ok, but i recently used a mac from a friend and he showed me how was it there and it was awesome.

All he had to do is click on a file (image or video), hit spacebar, and a preview opened almost instantly showing a video player or an image viewer, depending on the file, and it was really minimalistic, no much more controls than a play/stop if it was a video. It also works with other types of files

This is called "Quick Look"[0]

Having the "Information" column in dolphin to be able to see previews, is annoying when you have a small screen (or don't want to have dolphin maximized) and you have to keep resizing this panel so you're able to get a better (bigger) preview image/video.

This also is not very usable with videos, because you have to go to the panel to click play, so if going there, you hover another video, it will change the preview to that other one, and you have to start over again.

There is currently a way of getting previews like i ask here in Dolphin, which you can access like this:

1) Right click over the file
2) "Actions" submenu
3) Preview this file

Other than this being cumbersome, it won't work unless the "File previewer" plasmoid is not being used in the desktop... and it doesn't work with videos (the preview window opens, but no video is played)

And also there's no way to assign a shortcut or something.

So the idea here would be to implement something like this, and be able to assign a shortcut, like for example Ctrl + Shift + Click if you use a "one click to open" config, and spacebar if you use double click...

[0] - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-mac ... -look.html

Please see brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=85386&page=1#anchormain for a similar image preview idea and brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=84390&page=1#anchor140381 for another similar quick look idea that was too vague.

Here's to hoping others will support this idea!

Thanks, i did a search before posting the idea, but didn't find anything, seems like there was, and is a shame that the conversation transformed into a discussion that missed the point. And for the other one, i already added my vote there, seems a very good idea and similar to this.

I would like also that people that vote negative to leave a quick reply on why do they vote negative, it's not "because is my idea, and i don't like people thinking different", i really think this has no downsides at all.

Honestly Dolphin's sidebar already shows previews extremely nicely - albeit a little small. Would it really be that hard to add a "space" shortcut to show that preview in a "lightbox" style effect? That would be swell.

I like the idea, but how about just a hover over option? Hovering over for more than x amount of seconds would enlarge it by double, and if it was a video, then start playing in that double sized expanded hover over.

This is very similar, but not identical, to this idea:
brainstorm.php#idea38913

Instead of using a keyboard shortcut, that idea uses a button in the corner of the icon.

Yes, sounds very very similar... anyway, i think bottom line is having a way to preview files, without the need to open full apps to do it... and also previews in information panel, not really usable

The previews in the Information Pane needn't be small and one needn't always have Dolphin maximized to get large previews. What I've done is detach the Information pane from the main Dolphin window and set it rather large (but not overlapping with the Dolphin window since it stays on top of it)--in fact it fills up the remaining screen space that Dolphin isn't using. When I need a preview I just click the Information pane button I've added to my toolbar.

You can set the pane as large as you like (even having it overlap with the main Dolphin window). Select a file and then invoke the Information pane to get large previews. Close the information pane when done viewing.

That is an interm solution, but I think have a good pop-up previewer is essential.

I hate solutions which require keyboard shortcuts, keyboard shortcuts are so 1989, I mean seriously who is going to remember all those shortcuts, when you can just point'n'click?

Dolphin has a popup-preview-feature.
I would propose to keep it visible when you move the mouse away from the file to the preview itself.
Then you could have buttons on the preview e.g. Play/Pause buttons for videos and audiofiles.
Additional I would propose the possibility to enlarge the preview just like windows, so you're simply able to define the size of the preview.

Anton, if you're talking about Dolphin's preview in a tooltip, that's most definitely not the solution. We need a good, dedicated preview system, not a hacked tooltip.

I found exactly what i proposed here, but it is for gnome and works with nautilus... so, probably just adding a shortcut to dolphin that opens gloobus sending the file as first argument is just enough

http://gloobus.net/

@Moult: I agree that we can't use normal Tooltips for that, as it is now but we had to rewrite the preview.
Nevertheless I would propose the UI I explained in my last comment.

I also like the idea of "Quick Look" for KDE. It works extremely well in Finder (the Mac OS X file explorer).

If you haven't try it, you have to try it to know that it's not the same as the actual preview panel in Dolphin or the Tool-tip.