I fould that I have to disable tooltips or they have a tendency to get in the way. They are way too massive, and to be honest I do not see any reason to have them as large as they are. Is there any way to reduce their size? [Screenshot_20260607_153549]

[image] EatMyShorts: Is there any way to reduce their size? No, this comes up weekly - for now, you either have the BIG one, or you turn it off. You can always use the information panel - mine toggles with F11 - or AltEnter (Properties) - to get details,

I have the info button in the toolbar already. That said I thought I saw somewhere that this was already addressed so I turned it back on after not using it in what seems forever. This seems like it would be easy to fix since removing or giving the option not to show a preview of the item and only s…

Exactly the second one again no need for a thumbnail in the tooltip, and yes too much missing info that should be in the tooltip.

you can somewhat control what is shown in the tooltip by using the F11 panel and going into the configure options. you can turn off all the info items by unchecking the boxes the tooltip file name and and the icon seem to a permanent part of the tooltip, tho. also turning off the preview under F1…

Proper tooltip example: Video tooltip: Full file or folder name Date and time created (following what you have set in Dolphin Settings) Date and time last accessed (following what you have set in Dolphin settings) Size of file Dimensions of the file Possible the audio and video codecs of the…

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MASSIVE tooltips in Dolphin

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ben2talk June 8, 2026, 10:58am 5

Annoying tooltips in Dolphin Help

Thank you. No, I was talking about this [tooltips] The problem is mainly if you have few files (to preview) or if the image has portrait rather than landscape format, because in this way it cover the file, as you can see in my example above. But I found a workaround: in Dolphin → settings → view → miscellaneous - > deselect show item information.

Idea for improving the file hover tooltip in Dolphin Brainstorm

Currently, the tooltip feels quite large, bulky, and not very informative. Why show a file thumbnail in the tooltip? There’s already a thumbnail in the file manager itself, which is enough to get a general idea of the file. Viewing details in two thumbnails at once can be confusing, especially with images. Sometimes the tooltip can cover 65-70% of the screen for Full HD images, but only shows 5-7 lines of text with a lot of empty space. Regarding the info block in the tooltip—why is the te…

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