> On May 20, 2026, at 7:12 PM, Adam R. Maxwell via Bibdesk-users
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> On May 20, 2026, at 14:19 , FZiegler <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> I just tried this and it worked like a charm. The resulting BibDesk.app
>> differs by now including Contents/Library/QuickLook/BibDesk.qlgenerator, but
>> I read that this is deprecated anyway
>> (https://eclecticlight.co/2024/10/31/how-sequoia-has-changed-quicklook-and-its-thumbnails/
>>
>> <https://eclecticlight.co/2024/10/31/how-sequoia-has-changed-quicklook-and-its-thumbnails/>)?
>
> Replacement is 10.15+, but the old .qlgenerator stops working in Sequoia.
> Lovely for backwards compatibility in the TeX world.
>
> The old drawing code probably still works and it was fast and memory
> efficient. I do have a Catalina system now, so might mess with updating it if
> I get time, but I'm not sure anyone cares anymore. It was mainly useful for
> Spotlight integration, and I've no idea if the UI is still there on newer OS
> versions. Does anyone rely on searching for individual bibitems in Spotlight?
>
> Adam
I do Spotlight searches every day. It's very useful for searching everything on
my local drives at once, both bibitems and PDFs that are not catalogued in
BibDesk, and for quickly checking whether I have a publication catalogued in
BibDesk somewhere. I do most of my bibliographic work in an older version of
macOS, so QuickLook for bibitems still works for me, but I would still want to
use that feature if I migrated everything to a newer version of macOS. Still, I
would consider QuickLook to be less essential than the simple indexing of
bibitems in Spotlight, which is one of the surprisingly useful features that
differentiates BibDesk from alternative software, in my view.
Nathan
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