[TxMt] Re: overzealous Quick Look behavior

Graham Heath graham.p.heath at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 16:11:29 UTC 2018


For what its worth, what you can see of the file (~15chars x ~12chars)
hasn't been helpful to me.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 7:34 AM Rob McBroom <mailinglist0 at skurfer.com>
wrote:

> On 23 Mar 2018, at 1:07, Allan Odgaard wrote:
>
> I am contemplating reverting the commit, although I have been leaning
> toward disabling thumbnails entirely, as I think previewing files like
> `README` is more valuable than having thumbnails for files like `main.cc`.
>
> Personally, I never think about using Quick Look for reading if it’s going
> to take more than 4 seconds. I’d rather see the correct icon if I happen to
> Quick Look a DMG than have the option to occasionally see the contents of
> an extension less file.
>
> Anyone finding value in the (proper) thumbnails?
>
> Not for text files, no. In fact, Quicksilver lets you specify what uses
> Quick Look to generate icons and I’ve always purposely excluded text, code,
> Pages/Word, etc.
>
> For the curious:
>
> defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver QSFilePreviewTypes -array public.image public.movie public.audio com.adobe.pdf public.x509-certificate net.daringfireball.markdown com.apple.ical.ics
>
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Thanks,
Graham P Heath
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