D11896: Show Information Panel button by default instead of the Preview button

[Henrik Fehlauer]

rkflx added a comment.


  > Also, now that previews have been on by default since 17.12 (and I haven't heard any negative press or internet complaints at all about it)
  
  Maybe that's because in fact previews are off by default? I guess the test plan in D7440: Turn on Dolphin icon previews by default <https://phabricator.kde.org/D7440> is missing to account for `.directory` entries.
  
  (Personally I think it is much too risky to enable previews by default for security reasons until the thumbnailers are sandboxed properly.)
  
  > button to turn them off isn't that useful
  
  There is a huge difference between making something a default and removing the ability to change back a setting from the main UI. There are lots of situations where users might not want to have previews enabled, e.g. their document previews all look the same (common for the first page of most scientific documents), or they simply want different settings for different folders (e.g. previews only enabled in their pictures folder).
  
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  I don't have time to implement something currently, but at least I can express my preferences:
  
  - Previews off by default (as it is right now)
  - Ship a `.directory` for `Pictures` to turn previews on only there.
  - Keep the Preview button in the toolbar.
  - Find a better way to toggle panels in general (Gwenview's sidebar button in the statusbar comes to mind, but we'd need to make some space in Dolphin first, or find a different place…)

REPOSITORY
  R318 Dolphin

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D11896

To: ngraham, #dolphin
Cc: rkflx
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