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Filetype icon overlay over thumbnails missing
What's the Problem?
In Explorer, thumbnails have, or can be set to have, filtype-icons as overlays. This helps to discern a JPG from a PSD or afphoto etc. Also, videos and images or PDFs are hard to discern without any indication of the filetype.
In medium or large icon view, even the filenames are usually cut off so that the extensions are not visible, either.
Solution/Idea
Have files show the filetype-icons as overlays the way Explorer does. (It is possible, that this is not native to explorer, but there is a setting in Sage Thumbs which leads to that kind of overlay)
Alternatives
No alternative ideas
Priorities
| Capability | Priority |
|---|---|
| This proposal will allow end users to discern the filetype in thumbnail views | Must |
Files Version
2.0.34.0
Windows Version
Windows 10 Pro Version 21H1 Betriebssystembuild 19043.1348
Comments
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~Thanks for the report. This is unfortunately a known issue, e.g #6966, #6512.~ Edit: I misread, this is different. Could you post a screenshot of Explorer showing this?
The missing thumbnails / thumbnails not being refreshed etc. are an issue here, too. But I saw, that that is a known issue.
I hope the image makes clear, what I mean. When it comes to discerning images, videos and PDFs, it is even more disturbing, but knowing if what I see is the .afphoto with layers, or a .png exported flat also makes working with files hard...
Also, I see much more text, up to 4 lines, in Explorer, but only one line in Files. So the filetype extension is visible even more seldom...
Is this still an issue in the preview version? https://files.community/download/preview
The length of the filename shown is better now, but there still are no file type icon overlays on any file type.
Yesterday's download was 3.1.1
Edit: it seems to be 3.1.2 though in 'about' it says 3.1.1
Sorry, when I checked the version, it was the not preview build. But here is what it looks like with the 3.1.2
Thanks for checking! Is there a way to enable these overlays without sage thumbs?
I don't think they have anything to do with SageThumbs. They are a regular Windows feature. Some apps like Irfanview or ImageGlass provide different file type icons for different kinds of images, but Windows has the ability to show them natively, I think.
They are a regular Windows feature
I can't seem to find an option to enable them
No, it's an option in Sagethumbs not Windows. Other programs can add there own when generating thumbnails too.
It also seem that Sage is directly editing how Windows File Explorer thumbnails works to get them to show.
Are they directly hooking into File Explorer to display them? We can discuss adding our own option to Files but this doesn't seem to be a native option in Windows.
Not sure, The installer shows a few dlls being modified but they seem to just be for registering that the program is installed.
Apparently, there is a reg key you can add.
REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced" /V ShowTypeOverlay /T REG_DWORD /D 1 /F
That is already set in my case, otherwise Explorer would not show the overlays.