Following up myself.....
Just figured it out - left my mouse pointer over the icons and up pops a preview - and then I found this message about preview file sizes http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde&m=105203828731126&w=2
Very neat :-)
It does seem to be a little temperamental; I have two PDF's: -rw-r--r-- 1 rnc rnc 2715201 Jun 7 14:02 rtsj-V1.0.pdf -rw-r--r-- 1 rnc rnc 167008 Jun 15 12:06 Scarab.pdf in my Desktop folder, with the maximum file preview size set to 3MB. Only rtsj-V1.0.pdf is previewed - any ideas? (especially on how to get more helpful information :-) )
Secondly the tooltip does not pop up over the Desktop icons unless I do a show desktop, effectively removing focus from the current window.
Is there any way of getting round this? Or, overriding for that directory(Desktop) and disabling the previews?
Finally (!) is there any documentation anywhere on what ConfigureDesktop/Components/FileManager/Previews&MetaData protocols are? Some are obvious e.g. smb but for e.g. Local Protocols man/programs etc its not clear to me what they affect.
Cheers,
Nick
Nick Cross wrote:
Hi,
Having got my new computer I've just tried KDE again after a long while of using IceWM - very impressed!
Got one minor quirk that I would be interested if people have seen before.
I have several PDF files; all placed in ~/Desktop (where I have configured the
KDE desktop files to live). Strangely although KDE recognises all of them as
PDFs and runs Acroread correctly (it is first in the application preference
order with kghostview second) they have all got different icons. One has the
acroread style PDF icon while as the others have text style icons.
Does anyone know why, for a single file type, the icons are not consistent - I
have tried changing via the properties to no avail.
Cheers,
Nick
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