A long while back, I decided that if I ever had a problem, and the answer to the problem wasn’t obvious from Google, then I’d write it on my weblog and hope that the next person with the same problem finds my solution instead. So here goes. If the wording sounds a bit funny, it’s because I’m trying to cast the search-word net wide enough to catch anyone who’s looking for similar things.
In Konqueror (the KDE file manager), there is a limit to the file size for the file previews to work, to try to stop your computer getting bogged down if you’ve got lots of large images. I ran into this today when I was trying to look at some of my new photos, since my shiny new toy takes rather large pictures, and only a couple of them were small enough that the preview worked. Searching for ‘kde preview image size limit’ picked up some stuff about the limit being hardcoded into KDE, but that’s waaay out of date, and you can change the limit from the menu nowadays. For KDE 3.0.3 at least (yes, I know how old it is), try Settings->Configure Konqueror->File Manager->Previews->Maximum File Size, and increase the slider.
Fairly obvious, I know, and I fixed the problem a lot quicker than it took to write all that out. But the internet is supposed to be the Source Of All Answers, so I’m just doing my bit.
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I use an image viewer called gqview. It’s very good, it can handle EXIF data, it has a thumbnail pane and all the zooming/fit-in-window/edit-in-what-ever-program you could want.
Possibly a defeatist attitude but one of the cool things about computing is that if one tool doesn’t fit your needs there’s always another one
I use Kuickshow to view my photos – all I really need is to rotate them, maybe a bit of brightness control (especially for my old photos), and next/previous. But I also like having the file manager doing previews on images, since the filenames aren’t really that much help when trying to organise them or find a group of photos.
I’ve also got preview for sound files turned on – when I mouseover a file, it starts to play. Makes rearranging my music collection a bit of an audible riot though!
Thanks! I was looking around in the “Control Center” for this limit and couldn’t find it, so I did a quick Google search on “KDE image limit” and ran across your post. I have KDE 3.1.4 and the path to the solution is slightly different: Settings->Configure Konqueror->Previews.
Glad I could be of some help. If anyone else wants to add updated info for other versions of KDE, feel free to add your comments to this page.
This is great news for me… but how do I change that setting since I am not running KDE? I use Fluxbox, and Konqueror. Do I really need to switch WMs just to change this setting? Or is there a command I can run to access these settings from within Flux?
I’ve no idea about that, but if I find out the answer, I’ll add it here. There might be a setting in ~/.kde somewhere that’s involved in this, but I’ll need to wait till I get back to my linux box before I can check it out. If anyone else knows, then post here!
a year and a half too late:
to change the konqueror preview file size option from any window manager, use the command ‘kcontrol’ to open the kde control center. then go to kde components>file manager>previews and meta data
Hi, all. I came across this thread while looking on Google for “konqueror preview maximum file size”. Maybe I’m not very good with Google, but I can’t find anything that really answers my question. Google skills aside, here’s my question.
I HIGHLY doubt that (a) anyone will see this, (b) anyone will respond in mid-2007 to a comment from a 2004 blog post, and (c) anyone who disproves (a) and (b) will know the answer, but here goes: I rip my DVDs and such to .avi and .mpg files on my computer, and almost none of them is under 200 MB–twice the max file size for Konqueror previews in KDE 3.5.6. Is there a way to override this setting to allow me to preview thumbnails of movies up to, say, 700-800MB?
I appreciate any help anyone can give me–even an application to generate and embed thumbnails would be fine. To anyone who reads this (and to Shine for starting the discussion 3 years ago and keeping the posts up), thank you for your time and I wish you all well.
Peace,
Dylan
Sorry I can’t help you, Dylan.
And thanks, Shine, for helping us all out! With the current version of Konqueror (3.5.6), the place to find the option for changing the maximum preview filesize is: “Settings->Configure Konqueror->Previews & Metadata->Maximum file size”
Cheers for that. Much easier than having to open up every image to find the one you want!!
Thanks for the help and what a delightfully odd way to find it..
Dylan: Use mplayerthumbs
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/MPlayerThumbs?content=41180&PHPSESSID=b523381d13e0999c82aa904c8e7cc7ff
I probably should have figured this one out myself, but I hit google before looking at Konqueror’s settings. This post came up as the first result, saved me some time and maybe a little frustration. Thanks.
Now I’m looking for the setting to control the preview size in pixels. If I set my icon size to “huge” that means 128 pixels. I’d like the hover preview images to be even huger.
Even though this post is quite old, it certainly fitted my needs!!!
i almost switched to windows to see previews for easy burning
(i also could not really find an answer on google for dolphin on the same preview answer, but appearently Dolphin uses Konquerer settings)and now it works flawlessly