Hi, I have released a program similar to Apple's Quick Look.
It is a very simple program that allows you to have a quick overview of the contents of some files.
The program requires some python libraries and I have made a list of those needed for some distributions. they are generally always the same, just the names change a little.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB1SRV1ldnw
Github: https://github.com/Nyre221/dolphin-quick-view
Download: https://www.pling.com/p/2083711/
Oh my god THANK YOU.
I have been searching for this for a year. Forum discussion usually come out to "why would you need that?" I work in media and have to look at an enormous amount of video and photo content, quick look is an absolute necessity!
Honestly one of the most frustrating responses in the tech community.
I disagree. I think it's often mistaken for derision when in reality it's a request for a better description of the use case.
It looks absolutely great and I will download it, but I have a question, what advantage does it have, for example, to use this instead, for example, to open Okular to view a PDF?
I suppose it has the advantage of not opening a complete program like an office suite to take a quick look at a file.
And thanks for considering posting on Lemmy! I have no idea if you shared it on Reddit or if you use it, but I suppose that 90% of developers prefer to share their creation there because there is more public there.
It’s much faster than opening an application. Extremely lightweight and keyboard operable. Insanely intuitive.
Select item. Hit space bar. Use arrow keys to view next or previous item. Hit space bar again to close it.
You should test out Apple’s Finder. It’s packed with features like this that save hours of people’s time every month
Look, I've never used Apple's quick look or Gnome sushi so I can't answer this question. The people here can definitely give you a better answer than me haha
After reading about a user who was looking for an alternative to Apple's Quick Look and Sushi Gnome I decided to create this program to practice with python and make someone happy. I didn't expect there were so many people with the same need.
I think its usefulness lies in the ability to scroll between files (even of different types) with the arrow keys, plus being fast.
This looks cool, thanks!
A couple questions from looking at the repo:
I added it to the repository: https://github.com/Nyre221/dolphin-quick-view/tree/main/package%20creation
I made some changes and now it doesn't delete all the history, only the last thing copied (afterwards try to restore it but it doesn't work if you copied a folder or file): https://github.com/Nyre221/dolphin-quick-view/blob/main/package%20creation/quick_view_package/dolphin_quick_view_shortcut.sh
this is caused by dolphin's limitations and there's not much I can do about it.
I don't think it makes much sense for this application.
For now I'm trying to integrate the modules inside a .pyz and eliminate the use of pip: https://github.com/Nyre221/dolphin-quick-view/issues/10
Very cool. Nice work! I wonder how an implementation with KPart/C++ would look like
Thanks!
I'm not sure what you mean, I have no experience with c++.