[dolphin] [Bug 446180] New: No longer possible to preview text files only on information panel while keeping file type icon

[Geekley]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446180

            Bug ID: 446180
           Summary: No longer possible to preview text files only on
                    information panel while keeping file type icon
           Product: dolphin
           Version: 21.08.1
          Platform: Kubuntu Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: panels: information
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: mrgeekley at gmail.com
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY
Before I upgraded Kubuntu (and Dolphin), I was able to have Dolphin somehow set
to show text file (e.g. .txt, .sh, .ini, etc) previews ONLY on information
panel. I can't remember the exact setting or how I made that work, but it's
gone now, it seems.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Dolphin on a folder with files, e.g: a.txt, b.png, c.pdf, some-prog (a
sh/shebang file), etc
2. Have both compact mode and info panel on and set to show previews.
3. Open Dolphin settings, General, Previews, and toggle "Text Files" on/off

OBSERVED RESULT
The preview setting is tied to both the compact view icons and info panel.

EXPECTED RESULT
Should be somehow able to config Dolphin to set text previews to only show on
info panel / hover tooltip while retaining file-type icons, and while non-text
previews (images, pdf, etc) still appear on both.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 21.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.86.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.13.0-21-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I'm pretty sure I had that working before (at least in compact view, Kubuntu
20.10), but it stopped working with Kubuntu upgrade. I can't remember if I
changed some setting or if that setting didn't apply to info panel (it would
just always show the preview regardless?).

It seems the "preview" setting is "unified" now or something? That's bad
because I want text previews, but I don't want that to screw up the file type
icons. I see I can disable previews on compact mode, but that disables it for
everything, including image previews as well; that doesn't help.

That's unfortunate, because a proper preview REALLY helped with finding files
easily. And you know, sh/executable files don't always have an extension, so I
REALLY need it to show the file type icons for text files. Now I can't get both
at the same time, and text files look like pdf files :(

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