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@Stianlars1 Stianlars1 released this 07 Aug 19:39
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v1.5.0
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Added

  • ⌥Space preview panel — dotViewer's own preview window, opened with ⌥Space on the file selected in Finder.
    • Works on any text file, not only the ones Quick Look refuses.
    • Built for the files macOS will never route to a Quick Look extension: .ts resolves to public.mpeg-2-transport-stream, a system-declared type conforming to public.movie, so no third-party extension can claim it. Files with unregistered extensions get dynamic (dyn.*) UTIs and are never routed either.
    • Same rendering as Quick Look — tree-sitter highlighting, themes, fonts, word wrap, window sizing all follow existing settings.
    • ⌘F search, Esc and ⌘W to close, and click-away to dismiss.
    • Links in previews open in the default browser — an affordance Quick Look cannot offer, since window.open is blocked inside quicklookd's web view (KI-012). Other URL schemes are refused; a previewed file is untrusted input.
  • Settings → "Preview with ⌥Space in Finder" with separate status rows for the two permissions the feature needs: Accessibility (to receive the shortcut) and Automation (to ask Finder which file is selected). Neither is requested at launch.

Changed

  • Space is never intercepted. Native Quick Look continues to handle every file it already handles; the panel is purely additive.
  • Extracted the preview pipeline into Shared/PreviewContentBuilder so the Quick Look extension and the ⌥Space panel render through one code path instead of two copies of the routing, caching and highlighting logic.
  • HighlightXPC is now embedded in the host app as well as the Quick Look extension, so the panel can reach the highlighting service.
  • Bumped the app version to 1.5.0 / build 7.

Fixed

  • The preview panel's link handling never ran: the WKNavigationDelegate method only nearly matched the optional protocol requirement (a missing @MainActor on the decisionHandler), so WebKit never called it.

Notes

  • The host app is not sandboxed. A sandboxed process cannot hold Accessibility permission, which the ⌘F and ⌥Space features require. The Quick Look extensions remain sandboxed. Distribution is Developer ID (DMG + Homebrew); the Mac App Store build has been dropped.

Installation

  1. Download dotViewer-1.5.0.dmg
  2. Open the DMG and drag dotViewer to Applications
  3. Launch dotViewer once to register the Quick Look extensions
  4. Press Space on any code file in Finder

Requirements: macOS 15.0 or later
Signed and notarized with Apple Developer ID

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