Hi everyone,
my name is Alex. I started work on a new preview tool for Dolphin (yes, another one. One day it will happen).
It’s called Maki, standing for “Maki is A KDE Inspector”.
It is supposed to be a very lightweight app that lets you quickly look at a file to see if it’s the right one before having to open it in your application of choice, akin to GNOME’s Sushi or MacOS’ quick look.
It is currently working as a servicemenu in Dolphin. I know a global shortcut is possible, but it seems very clunky to query Dolphin via DBus, especially if there are multiple windows. Ideally, Maki gets integrated as deep as possible within KDE.
This is where I need some help. Right now, Maki is very bare-bones and not usable how it is supposed to be, merely being able to show off its basic capabilities. If anyone has some pointers to where I can turn this into a proper Dolphin plugin with a good way to integrate a keyboard shortcut, that would be much appreciated. Otherwise, if it’s deemed better to go the Sushi route and call a method from within Dolphin on DBus, I would love to make that happen as well.
This is my first KDE application and as such, it might take a minute to develop properly, so any code reviews and merge requests are more than welcome.
It is currently hosted on GitHub: GitHub - FluxMusic/Maki: Standing for "Maki is A KDE Inspector", Maki is a Quick File Previewer for KDE Plasma · GitHub
If you have any quick questions on it you can also reach me through Discord at flux_music if you want.
All the best,
Alex