This I am sure has been dealt with before. When I try to insert a picture in LibreOffice for example, the picture icon next to the title of the picture is tiny. I have to open the file manager and go to pictures there to see which one I want. They are larger. How do I increase size of pictures in context menus. I cannot find either in LibreOffice wikis or in OpenSUSE wikis. Thank you.
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Which desktop environment are you using?
In both GNOME’s file manager (Nautilus) and KDE’s (Dolphin), there should be an icon in the dialog that comes up when you are asked to select a file - in GNOME, it’s “Grid View” (in the upper right corner):
(Just under the “Open” button).
I’m not running KDE, so I don’t know what that one looks like, but there shoudl be a similar option shown there.
Here on tumbleweed with xfce this is how it looks.
There is a button to enable preview of the image.
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OP is asking about the icons when he is in the application and clicks on the “open file” in the menu. He is fine with the way the file manager itself is working, says he has to use that instead of the applications’ open file dialogue boxes.
I see no way at this time how to change the icon sizes in the list of files when using the “open” dialogue, but that is what the OP desires.
Anyone have the answer? I am now curious about that, too.
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No problem here … running latest LibreOffice on the current KDE Plasma (X11) on TW.
In LibreOffice’s Open dialog, there is a “Zoom Slider” bar at upper right of the Open dialog box.
Look below - I show two screenshots, one showing the default and the second screenshot showing the Open dialog with the Zoom Slider moved to the right side … you will notice how it is zoomed in the image preview shows lots of image detail.
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screenshot two showing zoomed in file preview
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And this topic is not about “Opening” an image but “Inserting”. That are completely different menus and filepickers in LibreOffice…
The correct solution for modules like LibreOffice Writer where already pointed out by Conram as there are no possibilitys to enlarge the icons…
But you can enable the preview:
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@hui and @conram are correct. It’s easy to miss the small preview checkbox when inserting an image, but it’s there in gnome too and working as expected.
That’s my interpretation too. This is about the dedicated Open FIle (File menu → Open, or the Open icon on the toolbar) dialog that is launched while using Writer, Math, Calc, Draw, Impress, while in the app.
It’s not about Dolphin or some other GUI file manager. The OP only mentioned that they use a file manager to see a larger preview, yet can’t see it in the dedicated Open File dialog.
In my dedicated LibreOffice (no matter WHICH app you use) File Open dialog, I also have a “Show Preview” button on the File Open dialog’s toolbar, which shows a side panel with a preview.
The method I showcased in my previous post is NOT the side-panel. It’s what you see in real-time as you’re navigating the file system sub-directories. And that Zoom icons feature I show persists across all the LibreOffice apps, so if the Zoom icon is set to 256, it stays at that setting, no matter if you use Writer, Math, Calc, Draw, Impress.
Again, I’m using KDE Plasma, not GNOME or XFCE, so can’t comment on using LibreOffice on other DEs … and unfortunately, the OP never stated their DE, or responded back.
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Definitely not:
Insert is NOT open!
Big, but easy to spot difference…
This doesn’t matter at all as it is a LibreOffice UI question…
Hey, @aggie. Can you show us a couple of things
- The version of LibreOffice you’re using (and if it’s a FlatPak or not)
- Show us a screenshot of Insert File (image) dialog vs a File Open dialog - any difference?
Thanks.
Not a Flatpak.
Help → About → copy version info button.
Version: 7.6.4.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 60(Build:1)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.6; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
This is on my Dell laptop.
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For me, it doesn’t matter if using File Open or Insert File dialog … I see the same dialog (but its Title is different) , and with the zoom slider.
Does no one else see what I see??
Screenshot using LibreOffice Writer, and selected menu option Insert → Image
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aggie uses KDE Plasma with recommends installed. That means he has full adapted menu style. Everybody who uses no-recommends doesn’t have this menu style…
conrams and my description is independent from the used desktop environment and universal.
You know the old joke about the word “assume”? That’s what I did. Oops.
I assumed that LibreOffice used the system open dialogs, and that’s what I looked at. It’s been long enough since I looked closely at the LO open dialog that I forgot that they have their own. 
the real problem in this thread is that the first post was not really clear with the where, before, after, etc. It was easy to “assume” the person clicked on “open” to insert something, with the lack of that information.
In fact, I had a very difficult time seeing over the OPs shoulder from way over here.
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