File dialog: preview widget

[Robert Knight]

> I think it can be useful in case of very large images where the previews
> would take a long time to show up

If that is a genuine problem then perhaps some heuristics could be
employed instead?  Konqueror already has a mechanism to limit previews
to files below a certain size.

The file dialog would definitely look neater without this.

On 07/09/2007, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday 07 September 2007, Peter Penz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > during the port of the file-dialog to KDE 4 and reading some discussions
> about
> > the "cluttered file dialog" (http://dot.kde.org/1188928003/1188936931,
> > http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=18563) I was wondering about the
> > preview widget: http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de/temp/file-dialog.png
> >
> > I personally never used the option to turn off the automatic preview by
> > unchecking the "Automatic preview" checkbox and hence I also never needed
> > the "Preview" button. If I don't want to have a preview, I just turn off
> the
> > preview widget completely...
> >
> > It is not my intention to remove any functionality that is needed, but in
> this
> > case I could not think of a usecase where using the checkbox/button has
> any
> > benefit against just turning off the preview.
> >
> > Is there something I'm missing here? If not, I'd like to remove the
> checkbox
> > and the preview button, as it adds quite a lot visual clutter.
>
> I think it can be useful in case of very large images where the previews
> would take
> a long time to show up, so the user could have more control over when
> exactly to
> make a preview. But well, I can't decide about usefulness vs visual clutter
> for others.
> I just want to point out that the users of the file dialog are all KDE apps
> so you probably
> want to ask on kde-core-devel rather than on kfm-devel (which is limited to
> konqueror and dolphin people).
>
> --
> David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
> Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
>