Add proper Quick Look support

[skurfer]

It would be nice if you could select a file in the first pane, then use the same keystrokes as Finder (spacebar or ⌘Y) to bring up a Quick Look preview. I realize that spacebar can already be assigned to a number of optional behaviors in Quicksilver, so I propose the following:

• Make ⌘Y activate Quick Look for all users.
• Add “Quick Look” as a choice on the drop-down for spacebar behavior.
• Once the Quick Look window is open, the user should be able to dismiss it with spacebar or ⌘Y (and probably ⎋).

There is an AppleScript action out there, but that requires tabbing to the second pane and locating the action and then the resulting window can only be dismissed by using the mouse to click the tiny X in the corner.

[pjrobertson]

Had a quick look into this today, but ran out of time. Here's what I found:

The API was only made public in 10.6, so it'd be 10.6+ only (unless you want to go tinkering with private APIs).

Needs to #import the Quartz framework. That's where Quicklook's stuff is stored.
From there in it's all to do with 'QLPreviewPanel'

Some good references:
http://development.christopherdrum.com/blog/?p=109

And the Apple App 'QuickLookDownloader' in the documentation.

Would be easy to incorporate as an action - just add some stuff to the CorePlugin.plist (would assume it'd go there), and the action.name.strings files.

⌘Y support would also presumably be quite easy to add. Just an extension of QS's current ⌘Q, ⌘G etc. commands. Didn't look where these are made though

[pjrobertson]

Also reported in Bug #23
More information available there

[pjrobertson]

Released in: ß66 pre-release 23/02/12

[skurfer]

Awesome!