deskfun-preview vs SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight

deskfun-preview

QuickLook plugin to render icons and previews for Yoda Stories and Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures save games. (by cyco)

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SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight

Quick Look extension for highlight source code files on macOS 10.15 and later. (by sbarex)

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deskfun-preview		SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight
	Project
1	Mentions	6
0	Stars	2,657
-	Growth	-
2.7	Activity	4.7
almost 3 years ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
Rust	Language	C++
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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deskfun-preview

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QuickLook Plugin?
1 project | /r/OpenEmu | 30 Mar 2021

Is there any idea of building a QuickLook plugin for ROMs into the app? [Matthew Callis](https://eludevisibility.org)’s old [QuickRom from 2008](https://web.archive.org/web/20111204193247/http://eludevisibility.org/quickrom/) stopped working in the Catalina 32/64-bit transition, but it provided a really great view of a ROM’s headers. I can see on GitHub that OpenEmu dev Cyco has a [relatively recent history](https://github.com/cyco/deskfun-preview) working on QuickLook plugins. Has anybody on the dev team considered this?

SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight

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Quick Look feature for custom extensions
2 projects | /r/MacOS | 17 Jan 2023

get Syntax Highlight and add any file extension to be able to quicklook it as text.
With 2022 over soon, what were your favorites apps of the year?
17 projects | /r/macapps | 29 Dec 2022

Those are some nice picks. Have you tried the free Syntax Highlight and is Peek better than it?
macOS quicklook for tf and tfvars?
2 projects | /r/Terraform | 28 Oct 2022

Good idea, but I've tried that and gotten the "blank preview" issue with my M1 MBA. I've also tried the suggested alternative -- SyntaxHighlight -- and while it works for yaml files with the expected extension, I can't find a method for specifying an alternative extension.
Is there a similar app as 7-Zip for Windows but for Mac?
4 projects | /r/macapps | 21 Sep 2022

If you like QL that much, then you might also be interested in sbarex's SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight and Markdown plugins.
👀 Peek - Quick Look Extension
3 projects | /r/macapps | 26 Mar 2021

How is this any better than https://github.com/sbarex/SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight?
What happened to Glance for Quick Look (and/or is there an alternative)?
2 projects | /r/macapps | 13 Feb 2021

After some googling, I found https://github.com/sbarex/SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight along with https://findergg.com (which you already found)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing deskfun-preview and SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight you can also consider the following projects:

GLTFQuickLook - macOS QuickLook plugin for glTF files

QLColorCode - QuickLook plugin for source code with syntax highlighting.

WebPQuickLook - Mac OS X QuickLook plugin for WebP image files

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qlImageSize - QuickLook and Spotlight plugins to display the dimensions, size and DPI of an image in the title bar instead of the filename. Also preview some unsupported formats like WebP & bpg.

qlstephen - A QuickLook plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension

AssetCatalogTinkerer - An app that lets you open .car files and browse/extract their images.

glance - 🔎 All-in-one Quick Look plugin

QLMarkdown - macOS Quick Look extension for Markdown files.

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