Hey. Can Dolphin be configured to show a one single big thumbnail for folders instead of 4 small ones?
Also is there a way to disable cycling of images on hover?
Thanks
Currently we have no such settings.
You can feature request them, but I would consider them very low priority.
Adding settings for those would have very low usage, compared to the impact on the code.
Iād be curious to know about your usecase though.
I understand
The use case is that I sometimes have problem with telling whatās inside folder due to thumbnail images being too small (ca. 4 times smaller than for files). The screenshot above doesnāt illustrate it well but for normal āfull sizeā photos itās often easier to tell whatās inside the folder by looking at one big thumbnail.
And as for image cycling itās just that I find it a bit distractive.
Iām not sure this is what youād like to have thou there is a solution that you can take with you even when re-installing and it goes like this,
In your username > home > share make a new folder I called mine āicons MIDUā thatās āicons My Icons Done Upā in there I put photos, icons Inc clipart company logos to use as icons when they go in their resized all to 555 x 555 in Gimp they can be png or Inkscape be svg or use Converseen to change the size and format with converseen make copies of the items firstly itās really easy to stuff up the setting missing one setting item and ruin all the images, until you get used to converseen make copies, easier to delete copies than to find/get the images again.
The folder that needs an icon image right click > properties click on the folder image goes to select icon bottom of panel has Browse click and select your MIDU folder pick an image to suit clickity OK Open actually and itās done , oh to make the MIDU folder easier to find right click the folder and use the 'Add to places in the menu.
Have I left anything out , ? .
Changing the icon image is just a few mouse clicks so itās always up to date.
A bit time consuming at first once set up and done eazy peazy plus carries over from distro upgrades because itās in your dot local files.
Hope it helps in some small way
artytux
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Thanks for the input I havenāt really thought about this. Indeed setting a folder icon solves this problem and Iām glad itās working for you however in my case I have hundreds of folders and subfolders and I often move files between them and I need thumbnail to always reflect the actual content. So I think Iāll have to live with the current behavior for now.
@iguana I think there is a solution, Is this what you need ?
I went to the Github site to see and yeah real nice, Taking it Dolphin-quick-view for a drive .
https://discuss.kde.org/t/dolphin-quick-look/5401
Hope this helps.
Yeah. I guess you could do kmag. But the scaling is really bad.
What could be nice is if the info panel of Dolphin could be floating.
Which you can do with a toolbar.
Otherwise use Krusader.
Krusader does godzillaā¦
Not sure if thatās suits @iguana thou might be whatās wanted, Mine didnāt want to work on MXLinux 23 , I was only having a look to see what it does.
From what I understand he/she either wants bigger thumbs on folders or a single, bigger one. My best bet for that would have to be Krusader.
Mind you, unlike Caja, Thunar, Rox and someā¦both Dolphin as Krusader zoom, as far as files go are limited toā¦what is it, 256px ? But Krusader has a much bigger zoom in terms ofā¦umā¦info panel.
another approach, i would name one-image-and-one-folder-in-a-partent-folder concept ā¦ āparentā folder with just one image or one phote in it and a second folder inside with all the rest of your images. this requires two (or just one) more clicks to open the desired folder. dolphin will display just the photo as a preview label on it
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Thatās a good idea and would work except @iguana has a thing for changing the contents of folders
Althou your idea will help others for sure,
@iguana must be busy , Hopefully my input is seen as ātrying to helpā,
I was told Iām very trying 
. . . I"ll let myself out, thank you very much . . . 
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