Full list of features and settings available in the readme
Current Status:
Alpha stage, with bugs expected
Performance is suboptimal
Approaching feature parity with Eve-O Preview
System Requirements:
macOS Sonoma (macOS 14) or later
Apple Silicon Mac
Try it Out:
If you’re interested in trying it out or following the development, check out the GitHub repo. I’m always looking for feedback and feature requests!
Acknowledgments:
A huge thank you to all the creators and maintainers of EVE-O Preview. Your work has been the inspiration for Overview and has greatly benefited the EVE community. A full list of contributors can be found on the GitHub readme.
Thanks for letting me know, I’m sorry to hear this is blocking for you!
I would ideally like to have compatibility back to macOS 12.3 (the minimum requirement for the core API I use), and if there are more people who report this same issue I may bump addressing this up in priority, but I can’t promise anything. My personal devices are all on macOS 15 so it’s hard to really test compatibility myself.
I have some open issues on the GitHub for this, and any updates/progress I make will be posted there if you want to follow along:
Giving this a try out. Using a Mac Studio (M2 Ultra) setup.
So far it’s running good. The performance is okay with 2-4 clients total. It gets really buggy and starts to freeze adding more than 4 total clients.
It would be nice though if I am say running 3 clients total to only show the 2 non active windows in the preview area and for the preview to update dynamically when you switch things around from one to the next.
Also Title overlay even when enabled doesn’t actually work to overlay the title of the screen on the preview.
Overall though it is better than nothing and look forward to see additional support being built and hopefully some functionality with things like 12.7.x support as I do also have another older system I would like to use this on.
Performance
I track general performance issues here, and I’m making slight performance improvements with every release. Performance issue not otherwise specified · Issue #91 · williamcpierce/Overview · GitHub
Have you tried lowering the frame rate? That can help moderately with performance, but probably won’t solve all issues. Still working on optimizing for large numbers of clients.
I have updated to the newest Release and the Title bug seems to be gone now which is good.
I can understand the Dynamic previews. It would be a nice half but not a necessity at this time so I will stay tuned as to those updates as they happen.
I did lower the Frame Rate down and gained some performance increases. I assume this will get better with time and as you can use the encoding engines for the SOC as a native process.
One of the things that I found that is a real pain currently is when I close out of the app and relaunch it I have to reset size and position of every preview screen I use which is a Huge time consuming issue. Isn’t there an effective and easy method to just save a profile that can recall these variables when the client is launched and perhaps a global hot key that refreshes the dropdown list of all active preview windows at once rather than having to click on the refresh for each one to update the dropdown list?
To address this issue currently I had to create a wallpaper background with the grid I use. Trying to resize things perfectly each time I have to close down the app and re-launch it becomes very difficult, so having a way to save the layouts would be absolutely amazing.
Thanks for the update, and I’m glad the title and performance fixes/suggestions have helped! Definitely still more work to do, especially when it comes to performance.
Complete overhaul of preview window restoration logic to make it more reliable and prepare for more advanced window management. Bugs are expected with this change.
Preview window title bar no longer flashes on preview window creation.
Settings tabs no longer intermittently freeze.
Hotkey binding selection dropdown now matches preview selection view.
Features:
Added visual indicator for edit mode.
Removed start preview button, now previews start immediately on selection.
Please report any bugs here or on GitHub Issues and I’ll get them fixed as soon as I can!
Preview window restoration has been totally revamped in v0.5.2-alpha – might have som new bugs, but it should fix your issue with window restoration @Zed_Al_thor
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