I’ve been using Kubuntu 24.10 recently, and I can confirm I have the same problem as the OP. And I do miss that details tab.
So, what I didn’t quite get from this thread, is this just a Kubuntu problem or a KDE Plasma 6.1.5 problem? And is it anyhow solvable without changing distros?
I have an old Fedora 40 iso with Plasma 6.0.3 lying around which I booted as a live CD to check this, so unless this thing is a bug that concerns 6.1 and not 6.0 -which I doubt- it looks to me like a Kubuntu issue. In Fedora 40 the details of the video and the Details tab are there and baloo is disabled (ofc) by default. 
. But one could ask that in the Kubuntu forums I suppose.
And is it anyhow solvable without changing distros?
According to skyfishgoo who is using Kubuntu this is fixable if you enable baloo and keep it running. (I don’t as it used to be a real resource hog in the past, it could write GBs of data and trash the SSD if you didn’t pay attention on how to configure it properly, and I don’t need its functionality, my search is fast anyway without it and with Dophin’s handy “Filter”). Other than that waiting 2 months for the next Kubuntu release I suppose.
it’s a kubuntu development track problem with 24.10.
24.04 LTS has the tab and i don’t know about indexing but you need it on 22.04.
25.04 is only weeks away, so i’ll know soon enough, i suppose… unless i bail
getting closer to going back to 24.04 every day.
Yeah, I’m considering changing distros again, since this is not the only bug I’m experiencing here… 
But I’m too busy for distro hopping lately, so I’ll see, maybe I’ll just wait for the 25.04 upgrade too, and see if it’s any better.
You can also get the Information panel to show on the right side of Dolphin by selecting the hamburger menu, then “Show Panels” and check the “Information” box
Did you know that the fields in the Information panel are individually selectable? Mouse click inside the Information panel in Dolphin when you have a media file selected, select “Configure…” and you can check or uncheck any of those fields. When I pick a media file like an mp4 in Dolphin, I see selectable fields specifically related to media files of:
Dimensions, Duration, Bitrate, Aspect ratio, and Frame rate
I suspect on your system, those media fields are un-checked
That might be because you have not baloo installed.
It does not need to be running/enabled to extract individual files metadata in the information panel.
Hahah yeh when I saw this kind of thing in my journal:
Mar 31 14:52:20 Pallas baloo_filemetadata_temp_extractor[6993]: kf.filemetadata: Found plugin with metadata: "/usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/kf6/kfilemetadata/kfilemetadata_xmlextractor.so"
(repeated a lot)
It had me double-checking that I’d actually disabled baloo correctly. The hint is right there in the name though 
If you have those, metedata extraction does run and should pickup things.
Mar 31 14:52:20 Pallas baloo_filemetadata_temp_extractor[6993]: kf.filemetadata: Found plugin with metadata: "/usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/kf6/kfilemetadata/kfilemetadata_xmlextractor.so"
This might be a packaging, what is your distro.
IIRC Kubuntu had some issue.
Yep works great here.
Tumbleweed. Are these messages not intended? As you say, it seems to be working OK. I have baloo indexing disabled, but this ‘temp extractor’ appears to grab everything needed for dolphin to work.
I’m not sure this counts as being on topic, but is it possible to get image/video metadata like this when looking at symlinks to a file? I currently only get the basics there and it’s slightly annoying to have to follow them to their target or open them to find out most of this.
I have this issue on latest Arch 6.14.6-zen with KDE, Dolphin
Version 25.04.0. (issue might been there for a long time, idk.)
The f11 information panel in Dolphin is showing correct metadata, but the details view columns for image dimensions and video length is empty for the same files. I have Baloo indexing enabled and results in Dolphin are the same for both folders indexed in Baloo and folders not indexed.
I have also read that the greyed out Home folder in System settings/file search is a bug, I did not understand the problem, is it not registered by the file indexer so we have to add the folders under Home manually? Or was the bug that it was greyed out and could not be removed? I understand it that default behavior is that all of Home folder is indexed, and we just need to add folders we DON’T want indexed under Home, if any?
the /home folder entry that cannot be removed is a bug.
this folder entry is ignored by baloo.
if you want a folder WITHIN /home to be indexed, they you need to add it as “indexed”
if you want to exclude a folder WITHIN /home, then you need to add it as " not indexed"
does that make sense?
yes, so the greyed out Home entry is to be ignored, like it was not here? thanks!
Uhh maybe I got it wrong; must we really add all folders to exclude, even if they are not inside a folder that is set to be indexed? Like the snap folder in your example, could you just skip that entry, since that folder is not inside one of the folders you have already set to be indexed?
ok Everything working as expected now. my Dolphin details view “Date Photographed” and video “Duration” columns are now showing metadata, I just had to purge the Baloo database , do a “systemctl --user restart kde-baloo” and start indexing from scratch. Also Baloo is indexing the whole Home folder by default, only folders to be excluded needs to be added, not folders to be indexed- unless they are outside /Home/user/.
probably, i can’t remember why i added that one… just wanted to make sure, probably.
actually the way my system works now, that would be the ONLY folder you’d have to keep. If your system works the same as mine does now, everything inside /home/user is being indexed, you could probably delete /Documents, /Pictures and /Downloads and they would still be indexed together with everything else inside /Home/User/ thats not on the exclude list.
