WHwhywhywhywhy·Mar 31, 2024
Always have to install Quicklook on my windows machines, too used to it on Mac
https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
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QuickLook
Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows
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This reminds me of one of my favorite features from the Mac: Quick Look — press space to instantly bring up a big contextual preview window of the selected document in the…
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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11 sourcesThis reminds me of one of my favorite features from the Mac: Quick Look — press space to instantly bring up a big contextual preview window of the selected document in the Finder.
You can bring it to Windows with this useful open source tool: https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
In PowerToys – open-source Windows utilitiesThere is a Quicklook clone on Windows called Quicklook [0]. Not associated with it, just found it when seeing if there was an equivalent for Windows platform.
https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
In Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptopQuickLook for Windows – peek into a file's contents by pressing the Space key
7 points · Open discussionGreat find. It is actual FOSS [1][2]
[1] https://pooi.moe/QuickLook/
[2] https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
In Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptopThanks for clarifying, the original tweet has also been expanded innl the same vein: https://mobile.twitter.com/AdmVonSchneider/status/1369300173...
And a bit off-topic, but have you heard of (or maybe commented on) "Bring macOS Quick Look Feature to Windows"[0] aka "parse and preview everything"? Is it paranoia[1] to think "how we defend against parser exploits" should be part of the tool design?
[0] https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26007577
In 7-Zip developer releases the first official Linux versionBring macOS Quick Look Feature to Windows
2 points · Open discussionI use both and really miss the spacebar Quicklook on Windows, I found this 3rd party app that adds it https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook and works better than I expected.
In GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blockedThis is really hurting Microsoft's ecosystem, I'm trying to add the latest version of QuickLook [0] to the winget package manager at the moment but because the msi installer isn't signed my pull request is doomed to failure[1].
If Microsoft want Windows to be an awesome developer platform this kind of friction with the tooling helps no-one.
[0] https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/1241
In Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developersFor me, Quick Look (more of a feature than standalone software). I'm using a Windows app[0] which does a good enough job, but without that I'd honestly use my PC even less than I do now.
Beyond that, not having iMessage is a loss. Pages, Keynote, & Numbers are free on Mac, and they're so much nicer to use than LibreOffice IMO.
[0]https://github.com/xupefei/QuickLook
In Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac userBring MacOS “Quick Look” Feature to Windows
2 points · Open discussion