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I have the following problem: in Snow Leopard, when you click on a stack or pile in the dock the system will display previews for the files in there. But for small text files, all you get in a preview is a few unreadable characters. I would much prefer to have their icon displayed (as in OS X 10.5), since I could then recognize them more easily (and it was much more beautiful also).
Any hints?
GalTrack
Posted 2011-09-02T16:52:20.287
Reputation: 11
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Delete /System/Library/QuickLook/Text.qlgenerator.
You will lose all QuickLook functionality for text file types, both in "regular" QuickLook and Stacks.
If you only want to remove QuickLook from plain text file, edit /System/Library/QuickLook/Text.qlgenerator/Contents/Info.plist using Xcode and remove the following line:
<string>public.plain-text</string>
There appears to be a bug in the Stacks implementation: It ignores the property QLThumbnailMinimumSize that would be perfect to prevent tiny thumbnail creation. It works in Finder's regular views though if you enable icon previews.
Daniel Beck
Posted 2011-09-02T16:52:20.287
Reputation: 98 421
Have you considered using the pre-Leopard "List" view? Right-click the Stack and select List. You lose drag & drop, but you also lose the previews (a lose-lose situation :-) ) – Daniel Beck – 2011-10-10T18:07:35.747