Thumbnails in tooltips

Simon MacMullen simon.macmullen at aspectgroup.co.uk
Fri May 24 16:19:15 BST 2002


From: David Faure

> Hmm, this is tricky. The only way I can see would be to store 
> that QStringList
> in KonqIconViewWidget (replacing kdesktop's m_preview list, 
> and for Konq
> it would have to update it whenever doing 
> m_propsView->enterDir(), since that's
> when the propsview gets possibly updated - i.e. that's in openURL.
> 
> Then for kde-4 you can remove the QStringList arg from 
> startImagePreview ;)
> (just ignore it for now).

OK.

> Hmm, I noted today that previews can pop up message boxes (e.g.
> when the koffice loading fails), that's really not good :(

Most thumbnail generators use a KPart in some way - maybe KParts::Part needs
a beQuiet(bool) method. And all the KParts need to respect it too. Ugh.

Cheers, Simon




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