With so many people asking, I just can’t procrastinate any longer. You win. Here it is.
It’s most definitely not the finished thing yet. Yes, I have been taking a while. No, there is nothing you can do about it (short of asking for the source and developing it, which you may do by sending me a polite email).
The Fumo Quicksilver Interface
Firstly, there’s the smoking version. In other words, smoke pores out of it when it’s active. It does take a few seconds for the smoke to start and is only supported by more recent Macs. This is obviously courtesy of Disco. Instructions are in the package, but essentially you need to copy the Smoke.framework (included in the .zip file) to /Library/Frameworks/ for the interface to work. Download the entire thing from this wonderful hyperlink. And if you’re worried about performance and what-not, the smoke gets deactivated or ‘cooled’ when the interface is hidden. See? Of course you don’t, you haven’t downloaded it yet.
For those who’d prefer to leave out the smoke, there’s also a non-smoking version, again with another grand hyperlink. There are no installation instructions. Just double-click the .qsplugin bundle (because technically it’s more of a folder than a file) and choose Fumo under the “appearance” section of the Quicksilver preferences. Easy!
Fumo’s undergone major updates recently. You can always find the latest version here.
Still in the works
I think I should just reiterate that this is still not finished. There’s a lot of work to be done (still). To see where development is heading, see Pavel’s original mock-ups.
Now, here’s the part of the post where I kindly ask for feedback. Feedback anyone?
Major update to Fumo: comma trick, fixed up smoke, preference pane, and more
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Ooooh….very hot!
proclaimed by Michael on April 5, 2007 8:47 pm | Permalink
Ankur,
I love you, in the non-gay way only a QS user can.
Great stuff, don’t stop now.
HP
spoken by highpass on April 6, 2007 1:57 am | Permalink
Afraid it’s not smoking for me, also needs a way of accessing QS prefs if you have menubar/dock disabled.
Looking good though I’d prefer the item preview didn’t have the gey background behind it.
Great job, looking forward to the finished item.
determined by Sei on April 7, 2007 2:09 am | Permalink
Thanks all!
Sei, you can access the preferences by pressing Cmd-Comma, but I’ll add in the menu button onto the interface as well.
revealed by Ankur on April 7, 2007 2:18 pm | Permalink
Thanks for the pb, but the smoke on mine show really off center. Like in the upper left corner of my mac. I have a pb G4, don’t know if that is the cause, but disco seems to smoke well. Just a heads up. Thanks for sharing
written by aashish13 on April 8, 2007 2:25 am | Permalink
I might have missed it, but is the final version of Fumo going to be open source?
composed by sphynx on April 8, 2007 7:05 pm | Permalink
Aashish, the smoke is a fixed size, but I’ve put off centering it for now. It’s more of a novelty so I’ll polish it up later. Thanks for letting me know.
Sphynx, I’m not actually sure at this stage, but the source may be floating around somewhere… I guess it’s up to Pavel (the guy who created the mockups and the concept) and Alcor (since he’s provided so much source code). Although, if the rumours are correct and Quicksilver goes open source (yay!) then Fumo will most likely follow suit.
announced by Ankur on April 8, 2007 8:45 pm | Permalink
Here’s my 2 cents:
I’m excited to see a new way of using QS, and this one looks really good. Could see it becoming my favorite interface.
My initial impression was that the window is placed a bit weird on my screen. It’s up and left from center. I don’t see a way to change this so I’m guessing it’s part of the plugin intself … ?
I like the look and design of the window but I wish it was bigger. Maybe not a lot, but maybe the inside window could be as big as the outside window is now. Doing this and centering it would make it perfect.
The smoke effect has some odd behavior. For example the width of the smoke is much greater than the width of the window, resulting in shoot of smoke off to the right of the window. Other than that it’s pretty cool. Don’t see myself every having the window open long enough to see it, so it might be cool if it could get going a little faster.
Great work - I will be looking forward to future releases.
spoken by Sam on April 9, 2007 7:36 am | Permalink
Great plugin! However, I’m using the non-smoke version -MacBook user-.
I don’t know if the default position of the window is at the left side of the screen -mine appears like that-, but I would prefer it to be completely centered.
Thanks!
composed by Crateman on April 9, 2007 7:48 am | Permalink
It looks great but the “comma trick” aint working in it for me..
announced by xekc on April 9, 2007 8:03 am | Permalink
wonderful ! I love it
spoken by Nusku on April 9, 2007 8:16 am | Permalink
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