How to see thumbnails over mtp (kde) (lemmy.zip)

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This was talked about before, but the settings location that was mentioned to enable thumbnails on remote files and stuff has changed. I have a mount of my android system over mtp, and I cannot see any of the thumbnails, making it impossible for me to sort my stuff, some into hard drives and etc.

How do i enable seeing mtp thumbnails in kde, is there issues with just mtp thumbnails in dolphin or what alternative file manager or image veiwer I can use so i can see the thumbnails and relocate the images.

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[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

MTP is awful, it wouldn't shoe thumbnails even on Windows for me, the issue might not be on the KDE side at all.

[-] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

If you go to Settings>Configure Dolphin>Interface>Previews what does it say next to remote storage at the bottom?

[-] xmanmonk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

I believe in KDE you can use KDEConnect on the phone and on the computer. This should allow the phone to appear as a mounted drive in Dolphin, and thumbnails should then appear.

this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026

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