Comments on: Changing the Konqueror Image Preview File Size Limit

By: Shawn Rutledge

Shawn Rutledge — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:34:17 +0000

Now I’m looking for the setting to control the preview size in pixels. If I set my icon size to “huge” that means 128 pixels. I’d like the hover preview images to be even huger.

By: James

James — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:49:59 +0000

I probably should have figured this one out myself, but I hit google before looking at Konqueror’s settings. This post came up as the first result, saved me some time and maybe a little frustration. Thanks.

By: J

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:55:47 +0000

Dylan: Use mplayerthumbs

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/MPlayerThumbs?content=41180&PHPSESSID=b523381d13e0999c82aa904c8e7cc7ff

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:23:40 +0000

Thanks for the help and what a delightfully odd way to find it..

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:14:30 +0000

Cheers for that. Much easier than having to open up every image to find the one you want!!

By: Mark Keller

Mark Keller — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:55:59 +0000

Sorry I can’t help you, Dylan.

And thanks, Shine, for helping us all out! With the current version of Konqueror (3.5.6), the place to find the option for changing the maximum preview filesize is: “Settings->Configure Konqueror->Previews & Metadata->Maximum file size”

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 03 May 2007 06:27:21 +0000

Hi, all. I came across this thread while looking on Google for “konqueror preview maximum file size”. Maybe I’m not very good with Google, but I can’t find anything that really answers my question. Google skills aside, here’s my question.

I HIGHLY doubt that (a) anyone will see this, (b) anyone will respond in mid-2007 to a comment from a 2004 blog post, and (c) anyone who disproves (a) and (b) will know the answer, but here goes: I rip my DVDs and such to .avi and .mpg files on my computer, and almost none of them is under 200 MB–twice the max file size for Konqueror previews in KDE 3.5.6. Is there a way to override this setting to allow me to preview thumbnails of movies up to, say, 700-800MB?

I appreciate any help anyone can give me–even an application to generate and embed thumbnails would be fine. To anyone who reads this (and to Shine for starting the discussion 3 years ago and keeping the posts up), thank you for your time and I wish you all well.

Peace,
Dylan

By: Arne

Arne — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:27:11 +0000

a year and a half too late:

to change the konqueror preview file size option from any window manager, use the command ‘kcontrol’ to open the kde control center. then go to kde components>file manager>previews and meta data

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:53:19 +0000

I’ve no idea about that, but if I find out the answer, I’ll add it here. There might be a setting in ~/.kde somewhere that’s involved in this, but I’ll need to wait till I get back to my linux box before I can check it out. If anyone else knows, then post here!

By: Wolfger

Wolfger — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:24:29 +0000

This is great news for me… but how do I change that setting since I am not running KDE? I use Fluxbox, and Konqueror. Do I really need to switch WMs just to change this setting? Or is there a command I can run to access these settings from within Flux?