[dolphin] [Bug 458982] New: Setting Show Tooltips causes file info to appear which obscures file names in a file list

[Philip Jones]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458982

            Bug ID: 458982
           Summary: Setting Show Tooltips causes file info to appear which
                    obscures file names in a file list
           Product: dolphin
           Version: 22.04.3
          Platform: Manjaro
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: pjdyns01 at yahoo.co.uk
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY
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Setting 'Tooltips On' causes a file name in the list to display a lot of file
information in quite a big box. This covers much of the file list and makes it
very hard to identify the file you want easily. It also duplicates what's in
the information panel if that is also being used (I like it).
Bug ID   388583 looks to be the same but doesn't observe all the effects for
the less educated user (like me) - I suffered many months of frustration before
I worked out what was causing my weird file display.
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Go to Settings | Configure Dolphin | General | Behaviour | Miscellaneous
2. Click to set Show Tooltips and click OK
3. Go to any folder in Details View mode and highlight a file

OBSERVED RESULT
 A large information box appears with file information and properties and this
normally obstructs a good portion of the file list, making it hard to select
one file out of a list of similarly named files (e.g. lots of them and the
selection having to be identified by looking carefully at the full filename).
This disrupted view can be eliminated by deselecting 'Show Tooltips' but then
of course all the other (helpful and wanted) tooltips also disappear.
It was harder to rectify than you might expect because what appears does not
look like a typical tooltip (I thought for a long time it was something to do
with Previews, but it's not).  Nothing  in the Settings app indicates that each
highlighted file will have a tooltip associated with it.

EXPECTED RESULT
I would not normally expect file information to be described as a tooltip and
if it is desired to keep this feature then I suggest its presentation in the
file list should be considerably streamlined, as much in the style of a typical
tooltip as possible. 
It would also be helpful if the description in' Behaviour | Miscellaneous'
could clarify that activating Show Tooltips will also impact on the display of
file names.  I expect a tooltip to relate to a menu command or option or
activation button, rather than to content displayed by the app. 
Dolphin already conveys very useful file information if the information Panel
is activated and I don't see it makes much sense to duplicate that information
in an overlarge tooltip.  Streamlining what's displayed might be all that's
needed to make it usable though for me I'd be happy to see no tooltips for file
names.
I think it could be solved by just removing file names from the items covered
by tooltips, if that's easily achievable, but if not an info note that Show
Tooltips affects filenames too would at least help the user to decide on what
s/he wants to implement.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: Kernel 5.7.19.1 .Manjaro ARM (64 bit)
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version:  5.25.4
KDE Frameworks Version:  5.96.0
Qt Version:  5.15.5

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Hardware is Pinebook Pro

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