Fixing QuickLook (2023)
The article discusses Apple's QuickLook changes post-upgrade, expressing disappointment over rounded image corners affecting various file types. Debugging methods using LLDB to manipulate views for potential modifications are explored.
Read original articleThe article discusses the changes in Apple's QuickLook feature after upgrading from Mojave to Ventura. The author expresses disappointment as images now appear with rounded corners, affecting various file types like photos and game assets. Despite searching for a way to disable this feature, no official option seems available. The author then delves into debugging the Finder process using LLDB to access the QuickLook window and manipulate its views. By setting breakpoints and examining the NSRemoteView class, the author attempts to understand how the image rendering process works and identifies the NSRemoteView as the component responsible for displaying images. Further investigation into the NSRemoteView's methods is suggested to uncover the rendering process and potentially find a way to modify it.
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Fixing QuickLook
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As someone who doesn't use ObjC in earnest, it's also a good reminder of how nice it is under the hood.
But I've had some weird issues using "thread ret" (even when using it as the first instruction in a function when it shouldn't corrupt the stack), so patching memory is probably cleaner.
I hadn't noticed before, but it is very strange to round corners of images in QuickLook. Apple should revert this change.
Anyone have a good way to not be distracted by every egregious annoying thing that appears in your daily routine?
Have we lost the art of OS design?
I mean, surely there must be designers and programmers in those companies who still know what a good OS experience is like. But are marketing and sales people louder in those companies?Buttons are flat text that doesn't look clickable, with the best case of having a very faint border, sometimes only on hover. There are multiple ad-hoc checkbox replacements. There's a jarring cacophony of old macOS and new iPadOS UI elements — old UI elements with small fonts, small padding, and teeensy disclosure indicators share the screen with big fat round blobs lazily transplanted from a touch screen OS. Some elements react to hover, some don't. Some can only be discovered by hovering mouse in a specific location. Menus have varying heights, and varying padding.
Such unpolished inconsistent details used to be a tell-tale of non-native UI toolkits, or skins for other OSes faking a Mac OS X look. Now macOS looks like a hasty unfinished reskin of iPadOS ;(
Look at the left and right screenshot. On the left, I can clearly see the Preview button. On the right, it's barely a button. Also, the default window background colour now looks like a washed out water colour brown.
What are they thinking?
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