Version 6.1.5 of Default Folder X is available, bringing several enhancements and fixing an interesting problem in Adobe applications on Sequoia.
First up, there’s a new “Open With” item in the contextual menu when you Control-click on search results in the Quick Search window. Like the equivalent menu in the Finder, Open With lets you open a file using any app that’s capable of doing so.
Because Default Folder X tracks all of your recently opened files and folders, this is a great help in those moments when you’re looking at a document and think “but I really need to open this in [Other Application]”. Just hit Command-Shift-Space, type part of the file’s name into the Quick Search window, then use the Open With menu to open it in that other app. You can even hit Command-O in Quick Search to bring up the menu without taking your hands off the keyboard.
Default Folder X 6.1.5 also includes a fix for an interesting bug. The color of Default Folder X’s toolbar (dark mode vs. light mode) is determined by the average color it sees in an application’s file dialog when the dialog first appears on-screen. This has worked without fault for a couple of years, but recently started failing in Adobe apps.
After some debugging, I discovered that the file dialogs in Adobe apps “fade in” when they appear – they’re initially semitransparent, then become opaque (so far, this appears to be unique to Adobe apps). Default Folder X captures an image of the dialog when it first appears – when it’s still semitransparent – and the Core Image filter that DFX uses to determine the lightness / darkness of that image returns a darker color because it’s not opaque (which isn’t consistent with Apple’s documentation). That resulted in Default Folder X using its dark-mode UI even though the file dialog was in light mode – which looked pretty weird. That problem has been fixed in this release.
There are several other enhancements and fixes in 6.1.5 that are detailed in the release notes. You can read them and download the update by choosing Check for Update in Default Folder X, or on the What’s New page. As usual, if you’ve purchased a license for version 6, this update is free.
