On 06/07/2015 08:24 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 07 Jun 2015 13:03:05 Paul Klos wrote:
>> Op zondag 7 juni 2015 17:42:37 schreef Andrew Lowe:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Under KDE, which I use, when you go to move/copy a file and it
>>>
>>> already exists in the destination, you get a dialogue pop up with a
>>> heading of "File already exists", it says in the dialogue "Source" and
>>> "Destination" with the respective paths underneath then underneath that
>>> a big expanse of nothing then below that some stuff including the
>>> Overwrite/Skip/Cancel buttons.
>>>
>>> My question relate to the expanse of nothingness. For example, if I'm
>>>
>>> moving/copying image files, should there be a preview of the two files
>>> in this nothingness? Is there some USE flag I've stuffed up that has
>>> disabled this. This happens, in my experience with Dolphin and
>>> Gwenview,
>>> but I'm assuming they both use a standard Qt/KDE dialogue so others
>>> probably display this behaviour as well.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> If I try to copy a file that already exists in the destination folder, I
>> do indeed get preview images and some metadata, not a vast expanse of
>> nothingness.
>>
>> For example, when copying a jpg the dialog shows thumbnails of the
>> source and the destination, and underneath each image the type, size,
>> width, height and the date it was last modified.
>>
>> Below that is an input field where an alternative name can be entered,
>> which presumably you still have. Finally there are the buttons.
>>
>> As for what triggers the presence/absence of the preview, I have no
>> idea.
>>
>> Paul
>
> From what I recall, in a full KDE desktop you will see previews only if you
> have clicked on View/Previews to enable it. This will create loads of
> thumbnails of various files so that the preview can show these.
>
> Have you tried this?
>
No I haven't. I've just tried, but I can't find what you're actually
referring to. Is "View/Preview" a system setting somewhere, an
application setting or you can't remember the actual title and it could
be view or preview???
Thanks for the suggestion,
Andrew
