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planbnet
thumbnails broken - project dead?
Hi Felix,
I've compiled master and reverted the colors again - sorry classic NFOs are white on black.
But the thumbnail icons are not working properly. This is what I get in the examples directory:
It seems that you provide an AppStore version, so does this mean that this open source project is dead? I mean a lot of people have the source on github and still sell a compiled version in the AppStore. However, it looks like the version in the AppStore has some issues according to the comments.
I'm not saying that you should make the entire app available, but at least you could update the quicklook part here on github.
In any case, maybe you can update the status in the README, so that people know what's going on.
The icons don't seem to work properly currently... Maybe someone else has the time to look into this - I haven't, sorry.
I think you can see from the commit dates that this project has not been updated for a long time. In fact, the App Store version is even older and I'm suprised that it still works.
@planbnet thanks for the info. I hoped that the AppStore version had working preview icons and that you could just update the code here. Too bad that this is not the case. I'm not quite sure, why the code is not working. The scaling algorithm looks fine, but maybe I'm missing something.
Well, I don't have any NFO files these days anyway, but thought of it as a matter of principle.
@herrbischoff has a fork of this project that works for me. I ended up building it myself, as Catalina didn't want to run it without it being signed. Actually finding the built qlgenerator file was fun - exporting from the Archive window apparently does that?
Anyway, if it helps, this fork is what I used.
That fork said it was created to provide a more current binary, which turned out to also be unsigned and didn't work for me on Catalina, so I used the code in it to compile my own. It worked.
If there are no code changes, doing the same with this repo would have worked as well, but that's not what I did, so that's not what I recommended. I just wanted to be able to read some NFO files and figured I'd help out anyone having the same problem I was having by leaving a comment here.
If you have an Apple Developer account, maybe you can fork this repo, build a new, signed binary, and issue a pull request? I don't, so I can't.
I don't have a dev account and I won't get one, because Apple requires 2FA which uses either a phone number to send text messages or requires the use of iCloud. Neither is acceptable to me.
Also, this issue was about the broken thumbnails, not a missing or more recent binary, thus I didn't understand your message. Without code changes the icons will still be broken.