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!
This looks cool, thanks!
A couple questions from looking at the repo:
- instructions reference INSTALL.sh but that’s not in the source? Maybe only in the release tarball?
- does it clear the user’s entire clipboard history each time it’s run?
- would it make sense to package this up for PyPI, with system deps being checked for and reported from within python? If so, are you interested in pull requests?
instructions reference INSTALL.sh but that’s not in the source? Maybe only in the release tarball?
I added it to the repository: https://github.com/Nyre221/dolphin-quick-view/tree/main/package creation
does it clear the user’s entire clipboard history each time it’s run?
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 creation/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.
would it make sense to package this up for PyPI, with system deps being checked for and reported from within python? If so, are you interested in pull requests?
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
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
