“Preview” icons.Pretty much every document icon on the system uses the new ‘preview’ format, where the icon reflects the contents of the file. For some sorts of files, this is fabulous… things like jpegs and other graphics, Quicktime Movies, page layouts, etc.
How about letting me determine what frame in a QuickTime movie to use as the icon, rather than just splattering the black nothingness that is the first frame of a movie on my screen? And even better… how about letting me turn that feature off for files such as spreadsheets and GarageBand projects? Those sorts of documents really gain nothing by having their contents shown… and in fact, they lose some of their ‘recognizability’ in the Finder by not bearing an icon that associates them with their master application. You have no way of knowing what application will be launching when you double-click the file, unless you have “Show all file extensions” enabled (which I do).
Seems to be something that’s useful for certain file types, but a detriment to others. I’d love to see this as something that can be enabled/disabled by file type or by application. Not sure how they’d implement it though.
Yo. Regarding “How about letting me determine what frame in a QuickTime movie to use as the icon, rather than just splattering the black nothingness that is the first frame of a movie on my screen?”, open the movie, find the frame you want, select View -> Set Poster Frame, and save. Boom shakalaka.