Disable Dolphin Preview Animation?

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I’ve been trying to figure if there’s a way to disable the preview animations that play in dolphin when you switch between images. Specifically the way the image changes in horizontal and vertical scaling on image switch. I find it very visually distracting and slows the process of previewing images

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hi, welcome.

can you explain more about what you mean by “switching” images in dolphin?

are you viewing in icon mode, with previews on?

also the text from the kde info application would be helpful

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They’re referring to when you open a folder of video files and mouse over one. If you leave your pointer on a video thumbnail you get a running preview in the thumbnail of the contents of the video file. It’s a nice feature / tweak but I can honestly see peeps want it off. I’ve gotten so use to it I actually don’t normally notice it.

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I the previews are fine I don’t mind the images shifting the problem is when you switch images/change what you hover over an animation plays where the image changes it’s scale ratio to match the new image so for example if i had an 16:9 image then went to a 9:16 image it would become thinner and taller after switching to the image
I want this animation disabled

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i’m unable to reproduce this effect you describe.

when i look at an icon view of a folder with both portrait and landscape images in it, they each appear as either landscape or portrait and when i hover over them the only thing that happens is the highlighting changes.

same thing happens in compact and details view… there is no animation to adjust the image proportions at all.

does this effect you are talking about happen if you create a new user?

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perhaps. I installed kubuntu yesterday animations speed is set to instant in settings as well btw

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Hi! If I’m understanding the issue correctly, it sounds like one that has an open report in the KDE Bugtracking System: 503036 – Information panel preview exhibits jarring scaling/resize animation when switching between files with different aspect ratios, regardless of global animation settings

For what it’s worth, you can add yourself to the CC list in Bugzilla to get email notifications whenever new comments are added, or the status is changed. Making sure the “Add me to CC list” option is checked, then choosing “Save Changes”, will add you:

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i see, so you are referring to the preview in the information panel, not in the main file display panel of dolphin.

yes, i can see the animation when i have the panel open (F11)… tho, “distracting” is not how i would describe it, and you can always just close the panel.

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Krusader does it a tit faster I guess. No hover though ( not that I’m aware of that is)

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on fedora, it also tries to do a sort of alpha fade on video, and often it goes weird.

the video preview, at least in fedora, with it’s ffmpeg-free, freeworld, non free, bad, super bad etc codec malarky, is sketchy.

where does this code live, is it external to dolphin? I’d sure like to get rid of it.

hard cuts for me please.

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i’m assuming this is the thing that does it but where is the tweening

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phonon seems very wobbly. especially with the terrible fedora codecs.

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I agree with the OP, I find it annoying that when gliding my cursors over my pictures and PDFs, I cannot see instantly the zoomed preview because of the animation.