"Badging" Quick Look thumbnails

David Dunham dunham at mac.com
Mon Nov 12 00:00:51 PST 2007


On 11 Nov 2007, at 20:49, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>> Finder is superimposing "RTF", "SHELL", "TXT" on icon previews of  
>> various text files (presumably thumbnails, as a Quick Look shows  
>> the document as text), and "DOC" on Word documents.
>>
> You might get it for free if your UTI conforms to public.text.  Our  
> file type gets that badge by conforming to public.plain-text as far  
> as I can see; it draws on top of the QL thumbnail.


Which badge do you get?

(I don't think I can be plain-text.)

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