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Previewing images
I love fman and would love to have it as my default file system. I only have 1 (major?) concern / struggle I need help with. I work a lot with images and previewing them can be a pain. For example, if I have a folder with screenshots I need to either preview 1 at a time in "Preview" (Osx) or open a selection. This is problematic cause everytime I need to look at an image I need to open it in a external program and in my case (Osx) it launches finder which then must be closed. In Finder for example, you can hit spacebar to quickly view an image without opening it—you can also use the small thumbnails for reference.
So what is the solution? Implement an option to be able to display small thumbnails for each image in fman? I just want to be able to navigate through my huge folders of pictures and have some type of idea where I am without having to open every image everytime to get an idea.
Hopefully it makes sense, super grateful for any advice since I almost entirely rely on fman these days! Only using Finder when forced to etc. (Would also be amazing if this feature would work on Win aswell since Im using both systems ( Osx / WIn )
I can understand the use case. My current workaround is to open the native file manager (Explorer or Finder) with F10 and use the thumbnail view there.
Other, similar requests:
- Provide an internal viewer (for text files) - #417
- General purpose tab - #385
I can understand the use case. My current workaround is to open the native file manager (Explorer or Finder) with F10 and use the thumbnail view there.
Other, similar requests:
- Provide an internal viewer (for text files) - #417
- General purpose tab - #385
hmm thanks! I skimmed through the other posts and I understand where you're coming from. I understand the issue with fully implementing a "viewer" and how it takes away from fman's core and minimalism etc. For now I guess I will take your advice and use it in conjunction with Finder for images. But when it comes to workflow and speed I also feel like it is slowing me down using/jumping between 2 file systems.
Could perhaps be an external plugin? Or is previewing images super hard to implement?
In Win7 I use MS QuickLook
https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/releases/tag/3.6.2
and use it with the preview plugin. that works well for me.
I've tried and it is pretty quick. But an integrated preview panel it would be much better.
I've used FreeCommander for many years. Just changed now to Fman, since it is lighter and quicker. But the quick preview on the side panel, it would be great. Qt has great support for images, so it would be easier.
Maybe you could allow plugin to override the content of one of the panels and we could build a plugin for that.
Maybe you could allow plugin to override the content of one of the panels and we could build a plugin for that.
That's basically #385 :-)
In Win7 I use MS QuickLook
https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/releases/tag/3.6.2
and use it with the preview plugin. that works well for me.
Wow this is super interesting! Thanks for sharing, I will try it out soon and see how it flows :)
Any solutions for the Mac? I want to switch to fman but really need a thumbnail solution to manipulate media folders.
I have installed the QuickLook plugin, but pressing the default shortcut "Shift+Space" doesn't preview anything. Even changing the shortcut to totally different ones doesn't cause the plugin to work properly. My workaround now is to use the preview-Plugin and associate it with QuickLook.exe. But what may be the cause the default QuickLook-Plugin won't work?
I can understand the use case. My current workaround is to open the native file manager (Explorer or Finder) with F10 and use the thumbnail view there.
This is what I currently have to do as well, however the real power is using fman's filters in conjunction with an image preview. For example, all my camera uploads include a datestamp in the name, which I can filter in fman, however once I open them in an image preview app scrolling will ignore those filters.
