There's a Dolphin plugin for this: https://github.com/Nyre221/dolphin-quick-view
This seems to almost work. I’ll have to work on it later. Thanks!
I adopted ranger as my file manager and there is a way to enable preview that works for text files, PDFs, and images (plugin). It's not Quick Look, but you might not hate it.
I like it primarily for reasons of using the keyboard to navigate, search, copy, move, delete, and open files. It helped me miss Alfred less.
Someone else has mentioned nnn, which has similar aims.
nnn has this. If you have the right helper installed, it'll even show you pictures and movies.
This one’s really worth looking in to. I might try it out. Thanks!
Followup: This is the greatest file manager of All Time.
Isn't the F11 preview similar?
Kind of, but it only displays the icon of a file. macOS opens an entire intractable view that can be instantly opened and closed with the space bar. It can even do most video and audio files.
Even 3D objects
Especially 3D objects
I recently found out that Nemo has this feature as well (the default file manager for cinnamon)
I would also love this functionality in Plasma!
Apparently, Plasma used to have it (KLook), but it died a long time ago. I don’t understand why they’d kill off/not maintain such a useful feature.
Nautilus kinda has it, don’t know how it works though
Is there any way to restore this functionality?
Yes, you can implement it yourself.
Look, if it becomes enough of an issue for me, I’ll learn how to create software.
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