| Re: OK, discovered one thing I don't like about EdgeView... |
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| symm (symm@nowhere.org) |
2019/03/20 09:27 |
On 2019-03-20 09:04:02 +0000, Custer Beaton said:
> I understood about five words of this but I appreciate your
> thoroughness! The only thing I used to be able to do easily in Simple
> Comic that I miss in EdgeView is see all the pages at once as
> thumbnails with a simple keystroke (forget what it was now!) so you
> could quickly navigate to one in particular. With Edgeview there's no
> obvious way to do that within the program, but you can work around it
> in the Finder. (I think that's what you were talking about!)
>
> Do I recall correctly that you posted a couple of CBZ/CBR droplets for
> Mac here some time ago? I used to rely on it heavily, but Mojave broke
> it. Thanks for making it in the first place, if it was you - it was a
> lifesaver when I was cleaning up my collection.
>
> - CB
Not sure how tongue-in-cheek you were about understanding only five
words or how interested you are in how to troubleshoot QL, but for
those following along at home (i.e. lurking):
qlmanage is Apple's built CLI tool for troubleshooting the QuickLook
plugins on the Mac. You can:
- reset/restart the background process that handles the QL function.
- clear the icon caches that are generated to speed up file
thumbnail/icon display (requires restarting Finder).
- show which filetypes are handled by which Quicklook plugins (generators).
These are either standalone packages in
~/Library/QuickLook
/Library/QuickLook
/System/Library/QuickLook
or embedded in an app like EV2 (/Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook)
RANT: In Apple's normal "it just works, trust us"™ SOP, stuff like this
breaks more than desired (if you anything beyond a handful of
apps/generators) and you have to reach around your elbow to try to
force it to work properly since there are no formal ways to
define/adjust behavior.
In this case I couldn't recall seeing different Quicklook modes based
on some arbitrary condition and thought I had two different generators
handling cbz/cbr. At one point I had QL plugins for cbz/cbr/cb7 from
Simple Comic, DrawnStrips Reader, EdgeView 2 along with a copy or alias
of one them in one of the various Library Quicklook folders to try and
fix Apple's crap. I had mostly cleaned it up earlier, but the weird
behavior caused me to assume more Apple BS.
In typical "I always forget what I have learned" style, I had to
relearn to troubleshoot Quicklook. The key is to look at mappings:
→ qlmanage -m | grep -i cb
com.milke.cbz-archive -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
public.cbr-archive -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
public.cb7-archive -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
com.macitbetter.cbr-archive -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
public.archive.cbt -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
com.bitcartel.comicbooklover.cbr -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
com.milke.cbr-archive -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
com.bitcartel.comicbooklover.cbz -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
com.macblurayplayer.divx -> /Applications/Invisor QuickLook
Helper.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/InvisorQL.qlgenerator (3.0)
public.archive.cbr -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
cx.c3.cb7-archive -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
public.cbz-archive -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
cx.c3.cbz-archive -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
com.macblurayplayer.matroska -> /Applications/Invisor QuickLook
Helper.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/InvisorQL.qlgenerator (3.0)
com.apple.macbinary-archive ->
/Applications/BetterZip.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/BetterZipQL.qlgenerator
(1448)
com.macblurayplayer.ogg -> /Applications/Invisor QuickLook
Helper.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/InvisorQL.qlgenerator (3.0)
com.macitbetter.cb7-archive -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
cx.c3.cbr-archive -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
com.macitbetter.cbz-archive -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
public.cbt-archive -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
public.archive.cbz -> /Applications/EdgeView
2.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/ComicLook.qlgenerator (150 - loaded)
com.macblurayplayer.ogv -> /Applications/Invisor QuickLook
Helper.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/InvisorQL.qlgenerator (3.0)
In the above example I queried the Quicklook mappings (qlmanage -m) and
piped (the vertical bar "|") the results into a case-insensitive ("-i"
switch) grep filter for "cb".
QuickLook is an extremely useful feature on the Mac, but in typical
Apple SOP of the last 10 years or so they drive away individual
developers who offer useful small scale free solutions (check the
pitiful state of QuickLook plugins sites) and only the larger or
quick-buck scammy apps/developers bother to deal with their shenigans.
They do this by nerfing the APIs, requiring paid developer accounts for
things people are giving away, etc. At least it isn't quite as bad as
Safarai extensions.
But as long as they get 30% of whatever scam "devleopers" are selling
on their storefronts, it's all good. Re: useless or malignant apps,
blatant IP ripoffs, etc.
/end rant
P.S. I could rant about Windows as well but I haven't used it as a
daily driver in ages despite having one Win 7 and two Win 10 boxes in
the home.
Ain't technology great?!? Excuse me while I reprogram an Arduino and
slap a custom Linux distro on a couple of more Raspberry Pi™ boxes. ;-)
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