Could add an auto-skip option for the non-native Office plugin when the native plugin is available?

[ZUIcat]

Using QuickLook as a portable app across machines with/without Office. Native plugin provides superior quality, but non-native QuickLook.Plugin.OfficeViewer still intercepts previews when native is available. Both plugins are installed to ensure fallback (no Office) + best quality (with Office), but currently require manual toggling.

Add an option to the non-native plugin to auto-detect if native plugin can handle the file; if yes, skip and let native take over for better quality.

Manual enable/disable via settings or scripts – both inconvenient.

Portable QuickLook usage across varying environments; applies to non-native plugin only.

[rabelux]

The native plugin is deprecated, so I guess it's not worth the effort: Available-Plugins
I suggest you use the non-native version only.

[emako]

@rabelux The reason for deprecation is that the new version of QuickLook has built-in it.

[emako]

There is indeed a V5 version planned for each plugin to support disabling.

[ZUIcat]

There is indeed a V5 version planned for each plugin to support disabling.

Thank you for your response. To avoid any misunderstanding, let me clarify: this is not about adding a config to disable a plugin globally (since this is a portable tool and the same files travels across machines). Instead, it's about adding a skip function specifically for the Office plugin — when detects that the native plugin can handle the file, non-native plugin reports as unavailable and simply steps aside.

[emako]

If only implementing a separate disable does not meet your needs, it is recommended that you develop a separate plugin (for example, called OfficeSwitch), which provides higher priority detection and routing to other plugins you specify to render office files.