Modernized Preview

[mbrotz]

These changes improve the layout and appearance of the generated preview to more closely match the Finder.

• Both light and dark themes are supported.
• Colors more closely match the Finder.
• New svg icons for files and folders.
• A new column shows file permissions.
• The preview window is larger.

[mbrotz]

Note

Only the preview for archive files supported by libarchive is modified. The previews generated for binhex and .sit files remain unchanged. However, since i don't have compatible archives i currently cannot test them.

[koenvb]

@mbrotz not sure when this one is getting merged but how easy is this to build myself? Or to provide a build version of your improvements? thanks

[mbrotz]

@koenvb You can simply open the project in xcode and hit the run button to build it.

By the way, i talked to @srirangav via email already. He said he would be happy to merge the changes.

I also attached two screenshots here.

Manuel

[srirangav]

I have added support for a universal binary in the Xcode project.

[mbrotz]

Do i have to resolve the conflicts?

[romanr]

Do i have to resolve the conflicts?

Conflicts are very minimal and not worth the delay. I made PR with resolved conflicts for your repo, and you can update this PR.

[mbrotz]

Any chance this is gonna be merged anytime soon? :)

[bigplayer-ai]

Hi, I installed qlZipInfo following the instructions (placed in ~/Library/QuickLook, set permissions, and reloaded Quick Look), but it’s not working on macOS Sequoia 15.1 with an M1 Pro chip. Quick Look does not preview ZIP files. Any suggestions to troubleshoot this?

[srirangav]

Hi, I installed qlZipInfo following the instructions (placed in ~/Library/QuickLook, set permissions, and reloaded Quick Look), but it’s not working on macOS Sequoia 15.1 with an M1 Pro chip. Quick Look does not preview ZIP files. Any suggestions to troubleshoot this?

Apple has removed support for QuickLook generators and has moved to a different method in MacOS Sequoia (see: https://eclecticlight.co/2024/10/31/how-sequoia-has-changed-quicklook-and-its-thumbnails/). I don't have a good example of how to re-implement this using Apple's new method. If I can find a good example, perhaps I will be able to rewrite this.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

-ranga

[dserodio]

Thanks for the update and the link @srirangav !

[srirangav]

Any chance this is gonna be merged anytime soon? :)

Hi,

I merged some of the proposed changes into the latest version. I will merge some additional changes into the next version.

FYI, I am not sure what to do about the SVG icons because they seem to make things slower on large files on my older Macs.

Thanks,

-ranga

[mbrotz]

Any chance this is gonna be merged anytime soon? :)

Hi,

I merged some of the proposed changes into the latest version. I will merge some additional changes into the next version.

FYI, I am not sure what to do about the SVG icons because they seem to make things slower on large files on my older Macs.

Thanks,

-ranga

Hi

Great to hear! :)

Yes, i can imagine that the svg icons might cause a slowdown on large files since the svg code for every icon has to be inserted explicitly for every item. A possibility would be to simply not display them if the number of items is large, for example more than 1000 or so. I wasn't able to embed the files into the executable and then refer to them from within the generated preview. I just don't know how to reference them, if it is even possible. If the icons could be embedded into the executable we could also pre render them as png files. That might mitigate the performance issues...

Manuel

[mbrotz]

Hi

If you need me to do anything here, you have to give me a bit of help. I don't have much experience with colaborating on github...

Manuel

[bigplayer-ai]

Hi, I installed qlZipInfo following the instructions (placed in ~/Library/QuickLook, set permissions, and reloaded Quick Look), but it’s not working on macOS Sequoia 15.1 with an M1 Pro chip. Quick Look does not preview ZIP files. Any suggestions to troubleshoot this?

Apple has removed support for QuickLook generators and has moved to a different method in MacOS Sequoia (see: https://eclecticlight.co/2024/10/31/how-sequoia-has-changed-quicklook-and-its-thumbnails/). I don't have a good example of how to re-implement this using Apple's new method. If I can find a good example, perhaps I will be able to rewrite this.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

-ranga

Is it possible to integrate this into Keka or another open-source macOS file archiver, now that the standard method no longer works in macOS Sequoia 15.4?

[relikd]

Hi there, I would look into porting this plugin to the new API if you want. I've built three plugins with the new API in the last few weeks. Should I use this branch or main?

Is it possible to integrate this into Keka or another open-source macOS file archiver

Keka is not open source. If you look at the github, you'll see that it doesnt contain any code.

[relikd]

I've created a branch with the new API: #3. I can also look into adding support for the icon files you provided.

[relikd]

If anyone is intrested, I've started my own plugin https://github.com/relikd/QLArchives (macOS 10.15+) 😉 ... if anyone is willing to create a Swift package for libarchive (or a tutorial howto), I could add support for at least 10.13, maybe earlier.