After using #Thunar for a while on my #Linux Desktop, I'm now back to using Dolphin on #NixOS, mainly due to its great preview pane ๐Ÿฌ

However, it is the only application that resists all of my theming efforts and burns itself into my retinas with its light mode ๐Ÿ‘€
GTK applications are using my Dracula theme just fine and with `qt5ct` other Qt apps respect it too.

Any ideas on #theming Dolphin properly?

@totoroot

Just out of curiosity, are there any Linux/Unix file managers that have a Mac-OS-like Preview function?

I do rather miss that, although a tiling WM and very lightweight viewer utilities like sxiv or feh for images and qpdfview render a tolerable analogue.

My main workflow for that functionality is renaming dozens of scanned PDFs based on their contents, so any provided preview needs to be big enough to really read.

@RL_Dane @totoroot If you use GNOME Files / Nautilus, you can install sushi. With it you can hit space to toggle a file previewer. Real handy.
I don't think you would use GNOME though ๐Ÿ˜‰

@golemwire @totoroot

> @RL_Dane @totoroot If you use GNOME Files / Nautilus, you can install sushi.

I think I tried sushi early on in my linux rediscovery adventure circa 2019.

Not sure why, but either it didn't quite work for me, or was slow, or I wasn't terribly impressed with it for some other reason. Or maybe I just couldn't find a recent enough version if I was on an Ubuntu-based distro. Or maybe it was dependency heck. Wish I could remember. Maybe I'll stand up a vm and try it out ;)

@golemwire @totoroot @e33io

Ok, DANG, I forgot how PURDY Gnome was. Not very screen-real-estate-miserly, but pretty as heck.

Yeah, sushi is da bomb. VERY good analogue of MacOS quickview, and quite speedy, even on a vm running on a 10 year old box.

NEXT, I try Dolphin in an OpenSuSE leap vm.

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