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tibold / svg-explorer-extension

Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files
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Obsolete due to MS PowerToys #111

Open Tracer1337 opened 3 years ago

Tracer1337 commented 3 years ago

Microsoft's PowerToys offer the same feature, which makes this repository kinda unnecessary to use.

DavidRockin commented 3 years ago

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for sharing this, I really appreciate it. It contains exactly what I've wanted for years, and a bit more. :)

GitMensch commented 2 years ago

This is a duplicate of #84 so I'd suggest to close this as duplicate.

For a "recent" MS system that will likely be the way to go, but only there:

Requirements

  • Windows 11 or Windows 10 v1903 (18362) or newer.
  • .NET Core 3.1.20 Desktop Runtime or a newer 3.1.x runtime. The installer will handle this if not present.

If you don't want (or can't) have .NET Core installed or use an older OS (possibly also if you use ReactOS), then Svg See is the way to go - but that is definitely only a minority of users.

BTW: Can anyone report if Windows 11 still has no SVG preview shipped?

Dhyfer1 commented 2 years ago

BTW: Can anyone report if Windows 11 still has no SVG preview shipped?

@GitMensch On Windows 11 Pro 64bits and without installing svg-explorer-extension, and with a system folder containing several svg files and the preview enabled in the explorer options, the svg files are only shown as you can see in the image below

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oweniverson commented 2 years ago

I tried getting Power Toys (v 0.60.1-x64) to work for a few days and just couldn't get it working. This works immediately, but must re-run the installer after a Windows reboot.

JamieRCHI commented 2 years ago

I tried getting Power Toys (v 0.60.1-x64) to work for a few days and just couldn't get it working. This works immediately, but must re-run the installer after a Windows reboot.

Same here. I disabled the PowerToys option and did what you suggested. Works Great. Thank you. 👍

trlkly commented 1 year ago

The option in PowerToys has a bug where it always displays a white background on all SVGs. This extension does not, which is why I installed it.

GitMensch commented 1 year ago

Backlink to PowerToys issue about that: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/18431

miragecraft commented 7 months ago

I find that the PowerToys preview has serious performance issues for me, it just hangs a most of the time with the loading bar never finishing.

Which is why I installed this which works perfectly.

david-rahrer commented 4 months ago

FWIW, I went looking for an extension like this one specifically because I didn't want to install power toys. Maybe if you didn't have to install everything and if their version was less buggy, but as is I think this one does the job nicely. I hope you keep it going.

tcfurrer commented 4 months ago

I find that the PowerToys preview has serious performance issues for me

This is not just you... it's everyone. It's because of how their renderer is implemented. See: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/19690

tcfurrer commented 4 months ago

in PowerToys has a bug where it always displays a white background on all SVGs.

That's either a bug or a feature, depending on how you look at it. At least for SVGs which are transparent. Because seeing black lines over dark-mode FileExplorer is really hard. The SVG thumbnail should have a deterministic background underneath the transparency, such that it looks the same regardless of what color the File Explorer background is. So actually I preferred the way that PowerToys did it, despite the fact that SvgSee is "technically correct." If there is some actual problem in a different case where PowerToys rendering is actually bad, I'd be curious to see a screenshot of that.

Related issues: https://github.com/tibold/svg-explorer-extension/issues/91 https://github.com/tibold/svg-explorer-extension/issues/15

GitMensch commented 4 months ago

@tibold Can we please close this as duplicate of #84 (and possibly edit its title to "Info: powertoys has svg preview but performance issues" and make that sticky and maybe adjust the README to speak about that at its start)