i can add the height and width columns in dolphin but when i have an image file with height and width parameters listed under details, these values do not show up in dolphin.
any suggestions?
tried searching in synaptic for anything related to dolphin that might enable this function, but didn’t find anything.
Are you sure those files are in an indexed folder? There was a thread/bug long ago, and I think Baloo is a requirement for it to show up in Dolphin.
baloo-kf5 v 5.92.0 is installed already
i don’t know about indexing, or how to do it, or why should know
this is in my default Desktop folder that comes with the plasma desktop.
You need to enable file indexing, some GNU/Linux distributions disable it.
That’s in systemsettings > Search > File search.
Then first checkbox, enable.
You can include or exclude specific folders like ~/Desktop you don’t want to index.
The file indexer (baloo) will then read all the files in the folders specified, extract information about them (names, dates, meta-info like image height and width, etc) and store them in a database.
This data is then available in dolphin.
when i went into settings to check it was already enabled so i must have turned it on previously.
however i still don’t see the height and width showing up in the details listing.
i even went so far as to add the Desktop folder specifically, checked all the boxes and refreshed dolphin, but still no joy.
however, i did notice now that the this screen shot posted above which is brand new to the Desktop folder, does have the meta data show up
so my questions are multiplying:
how do i get it to work on existing files?
do need both of those boxes checked?
do i need to add each individual folder, or does it do recursion, and if so why didn’t the original home folder take care of it?
Indexing takes time, your files might not be already index, if you have your HOME it it will read every file in there, and potentially all of their content since you checked (“Also index file content”)
how do i get it to work on existing files?
It does not make a difference.
do need both of those boxes checked?
No.
do i need to add each individual folder, or does it do recursion, and if so why didn’t the original home folder take care of it?
It is recursive.
You can check how many files were indexed with balooctl status.
If that still does not show in dolphin, that’s a regression.
checking again today i see all the .jpg and .png files even in other folders like Downloads have all been indexed and now show size info, so it just took some time.
but the only thing i changed was checking those two boxes and adding the folder, which i didn’t need to do anyway since it’s recursive.
so what does “content” do if not read the metadata inside the file which is where the size info is found?
it seems i should keep that checkbox if want that meta data to show in the details view, yes?
“file context indexing” index text in from documents of supported formats.
You can disable if you don’t want to do text search into your documents.
thanks for the help and tutelage, much appreciated.
