Top three bugs that prevent me from using FS

[RazvanGavriliu]

Quality of Life improvements

1. Preserve my personalized preferences for future use in case of FS reinstallation (save the settings)
2. Enhance the Fluent Preview window by adding features such as the ability to keep it on top, as well as saving (remembering) its position and size.
3. An option to view my custom hotkeys in a dedicated window.

Bugs Descriptions

Bug 1: FS Freeze for minutes

• The Fluent app is experiencing freezing issues when previewing local HTML files, as it attempts to render the HTML text despite QuickLook being selected in the settings.
• Additionally, enabling the automatic preview for TXT files causes the HTML files to be rendered as text, resulting in freezing for minutes of the Fluent app.

Bug 2: Preview in External Window not triggered

• The Preview with External Viewer feature is sometimes not activated unless the settings window is opened in the Windows taskbar.
• Replicating this issue can be difficult because it occurs unexpectedly; simply pressing the hotkey does not produce any result.

Bug 3: Struggling for Window Resize

• Please address the issue with the window resize functionality. Currently, the cursor indicates that resizing is possible, but dragging the window vertically or horizontally does not result in any changes. The resizing only works when the cursor is in a specific position. It is worth noting that this issue does not occur with the QuickLook external window viewer.

Expected behavior

• If the "QuickLook" option is selected as the Previewer, it should be automatically utilized and the Preview window should be positioned in the same location as the internal area where "fluent" displays the preview.

• There should be a separate option for viewing HTML code, which should not be triggered automatically. Additionally, this option should differ from viewing simple text files.

• When the "fluent" viewer is unable to render certain file types, such as MHTML, it should automatically switch to QuickLook (if it selected in settings). The external window should be positioned in the same location as the internal area where "fluent" would display the preview.

• If a file is too large (contains excessive text), "fluent" should automatically open it in QuickLook instead of freezing.

• When the mouse cursor indicates that resizing is enabled (i.e., an arrow with two heads), the resize should function similar to how it works for the QuickLook preview window.

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[adirh3]

@RazvanGavriliu thanks for the detailed feedback, I appreciate it! I answered below guessing you were using version 0.9.92.x, if not let me know please.

Preserve my personalized preferences for future use in case of FS reinstallation (save the settings)

You can sync settings to OneDrive or export them from Settings -> Sync.

Enhance the Fluent Preview window by adding features such as the ability to keep it on top, as well as saving (remembering) its position and size.

You can pin the preview window by clicking the pin icon (or enabling it through Settings -> Preview); I will consider adding an option to keep the position the same.

An option to view my custom hotkeys in a dedicated window.

This was added as a setting page in 1.0.0 :)

Bug 1: FS Freeze for minutes

I will look into it, HTML files shouldn't be rendered, they should be displayed as text. In general I have improved preview performance in >1.0.0, at least on my machine I can't reproduce any slowdowns when trying to preview big HTML files

Bug 2: Preview in External Window not triggered

This should be fixed in 1.0.0 as well.

Bug 3: Struggling for Window Resize

Will see how can I improve it.