Some outdated Quick Look plugins and extra information on some plugins for OS X 10.11

[lendenmc]

Hi,
I tested mostly all of these plugins (excepted for WebP and CertQuickLook) on my machine, which is running El Capitan. Here is some new information on some plugins, some of them might be outdated:

• QLPrettyPatch: It does not seem to have any effect on the OS X default Quick Look preview. Last commit was made in 2013.

• QuickLookCSV: The OS X default Quick Look preview seems to render it better. FYI, the last pull request for this package was made in 2014. Even though there is some personal opinion of mine into it, I tested on one file and here you can see the difference:

  • From the builtin OS X Quick Look preview:
    
  • From the QuickLookCSV preview:
    

• BetterZipQL: According to the developer's website

  The BetterZip Quick Look generator has now been unified with and integrated into BetterZip. It's still completely free to use for everyone, only easier to install and update. Just download BetterZip, put it in your Applications folder and you are ready to go.

  Though the standalone plugin works just fine, any mention of brew cask install betterzip might not hurt.

• ProvisionQL: The plugin works. However, the BetterZip Quick Look plugin is also able to render quick look previews of .ipa files, with a lot more information in it.

Could someone confirm and/or discuss these findings ?

[andylima]

Also, this one is an improvement on QLColorCode and replaces QLStephen too:
https://github.com/BrianGilbert/QLColorCode-extra

[andylima]

...And qlImageSize previews WebP, so I guess webp-quicklook (latest commit 2014) isn't needed. Though I haven't checked this part myself.

[kdeldycke]

QLColorCode-extra is not up to date. The real, active project is now located at: https://github.com/anthonygelibert/QLColorCode

See #51 .

[ealeksandrov]

@lendenmc

ProvisionQL: The plugin works. However, the BetterZip Quick Look plugin is also able to render quick look previews of .ipa files, with a lot more information in it.

I checked out BetterZip and it shows only list of files inside ipa. As iOS developer I want to see provisioning info, entitlements and other valuable data, not just guts of archive. Files list (apart media assets) is the same for all iOS ipa's. So what is a lot more information? Maybe I'm missing something, let me know and I'll update ProvisionQL.

And I agree with your finding about QuickLookCSV, removed it from my system.

[gingerbeardman]

I just did some testing of 4 different Markdown QL generators.

The best IMHO seems to be: https://github.com/ttscoff/MMD-QuickLook/releases

• supports Multi Markdown
• better styles/layout
• extensible

[ilanbiala]

Can someone submit a PR updating the README with the newer options?

[Jahhein]

@ilanbiala Working on it!

[esaruoho]

Hmm, how do I remove QuickLookCSV & QLPrettyPatch if installed them via brew cask?

[hawkrives]

brew cask uninstall the package name; it's the inverse of the brew cask install step.