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mac57

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Thursday, August 18th 2005, 6:49pm

Konqueror Previews ONLY for Graphics and Media?

I would like to get Konqueror, running as file manager, to show icons for most file types. However, for graphics files (.jpg, .gif, .png, etc.) and for media files (.mpg, .avi, .wmv, etc.) I would like it to show previews.

Hunting around Configure Konqueror, it looks like my only choices are preview on or off, for "file" which includes all files.

Is there a way to do this selectively, by file type, file extension, whatever?

I am running KDE 3.4.0 under SuSE 9.3.

Thanks!

anda_skoa

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Monday, August 22nd 2005, 10:06pm

The previews are created by plugins.

The following command will list all of the respective description files:
#> grep "ServiceTypes=ThumbCreator" $(kde-config --expandvars --install services)/*

If you open them they have a line which says which MIME types they are for.

You can copy any to your user's services directory
#> echo $(kde-config --localprefix)/share/services

And modify that copy.
If you want to remove previews for the listes MIME types, you can just add a new entry to the file like this

Source code

 
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Hidden=true


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bozy

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Tuesday, August 23rd 2005, 3:40am

To turn on and off previews in Konqueror make certain you are in file manager mode then View -> Preview, and turn on or off the file types that you want or don't want previewed.