Ability to use fman as default file viewer on macOS
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Description
fman is really nice. I want to use it instead of Finder. 😄
It would be nice to add an option to "set fman as the default file viewer", so that any app that has a "Reveal in Finder" command would open fman instead.
PathFinder has this functionality. ForkLift also support it. I have tried the method used by ForkLift on fman:
defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string io.fman.fman
However it doesn't work as expected. fman does open (or comes to foreground if already open), but doesn't navigate to the selected file (I tested by clicking "Reveal in Finder" on a downloaded file in Chrome). [This is maybe because fman doesn't handle an "open document" event sent by macOS. This could perhaps be supported by using QFileOpenEvent from PyQt.]
Btw this may be possible on Windows/Linux too but that could maybe be a separate feature request.
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Research direction
Start by investigating macOS's NSFileViewer behavior and the QFileOpenEvent approach mentioned in the issue. Reproduce the current behavior from Chrome's “Reveal in Finder” command, then verify that fman opens and navigates to the selected file when configured as the default viewer.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100