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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: preview in dolphin is slow with many pictures
From:       Peter Penz <peter.penz () gmx ! at>
Date:       2008-06-10 18:59:16
Message-ID: 200806102059.16919.peter.penz () gmx ! at
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On Tuesday, 10. June 2008 20:48:39 Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I just committed a fix in Dolphin for this. Nice side effect: Dolphin's
> > IconManager now uses KMimeTypeResolver internally, so there's no need
> > anymore for the views to take care on this :-)
>
> Sorry for not replying to this thread before...
>
> Thanks Peter for your fix (and David too). I wonder, could this have a side
> effect on detailed views with previews on (and type column shown) ?

IconManager indirectly uses PreviewJob from kdelibs, which has to determine 
the mimetype anyhow, so there should not be any problem :-) I just did some 
tests and everything seems to work fine.

> I mean, I don't know the side effect of not resolving MIME types when the
> previews are on.
>
> Actually, even on icon mode, we could have the "Type" information shown on
> the delegate by "View" => "Additional Information" => "Type".
>
> What problems could bring us not resolving mime types ? (If the default
> view is with previews..., they would never be resolved) ?
>
>
> Regards,
> Rafael Fernández López.



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