Hi,
The quicklook plugin can be seen in action in 3 different places:
1. the icon of ODF files
2. right-click ODF files and choose QuickLook from the context menu
3. cover flow mode in finder
Here is my feedback:
1. works pretty well, no problems at all
2. due to the very low resolution of the thumbnails stored in ODF files
(256 pixels or less) the preview looks especially ugly when being
scaled, choosing e.g. full screen mode is not useful at all. I would
suggest limiting the scaling factor to twice of the original image size
and use the rest of the display area for showing some meta info or at
least file name, size and date.
3. in cover flow the transparent background of the thumbnails makes the
content unreadable. a white background should be used when displaying
the thumbnails in this mode. if this mode cannot be detected, a white
background should be used in all of the scenarios.
Note that no special activities like dealing with qlmanage etc. is
required, just install the build provided by eric and start it once.
Finder will then find and use the quicklook plugin inside the bundle
automatically. Just try the scenarios described above.
Note that ODT files are handled by Mac OS X in a much better way (i.e.
allowing for full text browsing instead only using a single thumbnail)
and are excluded from Florians implementation. So testing of this plugin
is only useful for the other file types (ods, odp, etc.)
Regards
Stephan
eric.bachard wrote:
Hi,
For the record, cws quicklookplugin01 ( from Florian Heckl) is now
resync'ed with DEV300_m5, and needs feedback, on Leopard, of course :-)
A build is available here :
http://ooomisc.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomisc/MacOSX/quicklookplugin01/
I'll start a PowerPC build, asap, and I'll put it at the same place
Please don't hesitate to report feedback: this will be very helpfull for
the QA.
Thanks,
Eric Bachard
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