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scatherinch

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Registered: 2023-02-24

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[SOLVED] .ini files are not previewing properly

Hi,

I have an interesting problem here. It has been bugging me. So, I have a problem where on my main machine, .ini previews aren't previewing their contents properly in my file manager (I use dolphin). However, on a virtual machine that I also have, these .ini files are showing their contents just fine, as expected. The .ini previews on my main machine appear as blank files instead of being recognized by their extensions.

However, on the VM, these extensions are being recognized the way they should be (as a plain text document). To show the problem, I've included some screenshots that will better explain the issue. Does anyone know what's happening here?

What's interesting is that I have wine set to open these on both machines, but one displays a tooltip for wine (my main computer) while the other displays an empty tooltip for wine (my vm).

Here's the first one from my actual, physical desktop: https://imgur.com/a/MCkt4Ut 

Now here's the second one, from my virtual machine: https://imgur.com/a/PD1HGFF   

because the file has no thumbnail on it, it won't display the contents in my folder on my physical machine, but it will in my VM - again, here's some pictures of the problem:

desktop: https://imgur.com/a/zdzFGrb

VM:  https://imgur.com/a/tJJIxh0

(for some reason, some of these images got marked nsfw)

I've checked the coverage for everything in dolphin related to thumbnailers and I'm baffled by this. how can i get my physical desktop to display the contents of this extension like the second images?

Last edited by scatherinch (2023-08-18 01:54:02)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] .ini files are not previewing properly

Make sure thumbnailing is actually enabled on the directory Your "default" application should be irrelevant for this. FWIW since this is text and I'm assuming dolphin likely relies on ktexteditorpart for this. Is dolphin-plugins and ktexteditor installed?

scatherinch

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Registered: 2023-02-24

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Re: [SOLVED] .ini files are not previewing properly

Yes, I have those both installed, but they're still 'dead' with no previews of .ini files.

What's also interesting about this is that in the screenshots, on my desktop, the properties box says that these .ini files are 'Configuration Settings', whereas it just lists it as a text file on the VM.

EDIT: Here's what you were asking about I think??:  https://imgur.com/a/IsX6hXc

Last edited by scatherinch (2023-08-10 17:20:55)

scatherinch

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Registered: 2023-02-24

Posts: 160

Re: [SOLVED] .ini files are not previewing properly

I figured this out. Turns out this is proper behavior. Tested on another fresh, physical machine. I am not sure why my VM reads these as text files and not configuration settings though.