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Fullmetal5

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Registered: 2015-05-02

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[SOLVED] Dolphin won't preview windows executable files

I use to have KDE 4 on my old computer.
I had configured dolphin to show previews in all folders and enabled windows executables under the preview options.
With this configuration I was able to see the icons of the executables both on my desktop and in dolphin.
I have just finished moving over to Plasma and when I went thought and enabled the previewing of the executables in dolphin they don't show up and instead show a green icon.

I just use putty as a test file since it worked in KDE 4.

EDIT: Just realized this should probably go under Applications & Desktop Environments. If a mod could move it there that would be great.

Last edited by Fullmetal5 (2015-05-03 22:02:48)

Soukyuu

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Registered: 2014-04-08

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Re: [SOLVED] Dolphin won't preview windows executable files

I just tested and the icons do appear, but apparently not for x64 executables. 32-bit ones show up fine.

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Fullmetal5

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Re: [SOLVED] Dolphin won't preview windows executable files

Weird, what configuration options did you change to get them to appear.
I always just enabled previews on all folders and then set previews to show Microsoft executables.

Soukyuu

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Re: [SOLVED] Dolphin won't preview windows executable files

Nothing special, just "microsoft executables" in the preview configuration. You still have to enable preview in that folder, but I think that's what you meant by "enabled previews on all folders".

edit: putty.exe works

Last edited by Soukyuu (2015-05-02 16:21:56)

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Re: [SOLVED] Dolphin won't preview windows executable files

Moved to Applications and Desktop Environments by request

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Fullmetal5

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Registered: 2015-05-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Dolphin won't preview windows executable files

After updating today this issue appears to be fixed.