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Re: Show HN: Fileloupe for Mac

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Post by kennycarruthers » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 7:49 AM UTC

scrumper wrote: post #8

kennycarruthers wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the support. Using Fileloupe as a document browser is definitely a use-case that others have discovered (and one I didn't originally plan for). Dragging a folder into Fileloupe just loads all of the files in that folder (and all sub folders). The original files are left in place and nothing is copied, duplicated or moved. If you have a folder full of documents (maybe your Dropbox folder), then you can easi…

Great, thanks for the reply. I commend you for staying focused on your main use case. Only other thing - I'd like to be able to hit the "Close viewer" button with a keyboard press; not sure if Esc or Space is more appropriate.

The keyboard shortcuts are still very much influx. The Escape key used to close the viewer, but then enough other people wanted the Escape key to take them back to the grid view, so I changed it. People really seem to like to use the Escape key and the space bar which causes a lot of usability issues because their functionality gets so overloaded. (Escape is also overloaded to exit from full screen mode, while the space bar both switches from grid mode to the viewer and toggles play/pause on the media controls.)

I doubt I'll ever get a sequence of shortcuts that makes everyone happy. Maybe something like "Command-Period" might work for closing the viewer so long as the embedded PDF viewer doesn't swallow any shortcuts.

Re: Show HN: Fileloupe for Mac

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Post by manzoni » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 1:12 PM UTC

kennycarruthers wrote: post #10

manzoni wrote: post #9

Hi Kenny, Fileloup looks great, but is it possible to have a test version first? 29$ is certainly not that much, but also not so little, one just spends right away. would appreciate it! thanks, manzoni

You can download a beta version of Fileloupe at the link above and take it for a spin. Note that this is a beta for version 1.1 so some features are present that haven't yet made it to the Mac App Store version. If you find that Fileloupe is of value to you, then I'd love to have your support in the Mac App Store.

Thanks a lot! have you planned to include the possibility to add/change the infos of the file or add tags? although you say and probably do not want to change the files? i am thinking of the case of adding red tags, and then in the finder, the file have this red background.

Re: Show HN: Fileloupe for Mac

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Post by kennycarruthers » Tue, Jul 07, 2015, 2:37 PM UTC

manzoni wrote: post #12

kennycarruthers wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can download a beta version of Fileloupe at the link above and take it for a spin. Note that this is a beta for version 1.1 so some features are present that haven't yet made it to the Mac App Store version. If you find that Fileloupe is of value to you, then I'd love to have your support in the Mac App Store.

Thanks a lot! have you planned to include the possibility to add/change the infos of the file or add tags? although you say and probably do not want to change the files? i am thinking of the case of adding red tags, and then in the finder, the file have this red background.

At the moment, I'm taking a very conservative approach to adding what I would call "file manager" features. I'm not trying to create a Finder replacement and with the restrictions that the app sandbox imposes, it's very difficult (if not impossible) to even perform some operations that users might expect if they started to see Fileloupe as a file manager. That's not to say that I'm against them ("Move to Trash" might appear in v1.1) but I am being overly cautious.

With specific regards to Finder labeling and tagging, it's more likely that I'd add support for Fileloupe to be able to show labels and tags long before I added the ability to add or edit those tags.