Quicksilver B5X download

A download link is up. I’ll be periodically uploading a compiled version of Quicksilver for those who’re keen on testing out the latest revisions.

The incompatibility with the File Tagging plugin hasn’t yet been worked out as the source isn’t available. If you’re using the download from B5X, be sure to disable this plugin until the conflict is resolved.

Note that some features (such as the “smart replace” pictured above) require setting the feature level to “developer”. You can do this by running the following two commands, then relaunching:

defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver "Cutting Edge Features" -bool yes
defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver "Feature Level" 3

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Downloaded and running. Seems stable enough, and you seem to have fixed the Ctrl+Enter bug.

I notice that I can’t hide the dock icon, though. Even changing it in the plist doesnt do it. any ideas?

declared by Michael Bach on December 18, 2007 5:21 pm | Permalink
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Hi Ankur,

what about some design enhancements for the new development branch:

Here’s a new menubar icon
http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16783063

and here’s a new desktop icon
http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16783021

Cheers,

Jan Michael

reported by Jan Michael on December 18, 2007 7:13 pm | Permalink
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Hey Ankur, many thanks for the compiled version and for all your work on quicksilver. A small request though, could you, by chance, provide us with a Changelog of sorts some day? It’d be great to know what features to be tested out. This is surely nothing high-priority but i guess people would like it. If you can point me to some point of where to extract it i can do that myself and provide people with it.

stated by Martin Hauser on December 18, 2007 7:40 pm | Permalink
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Awesome work. I’d like to know what Smart Replace is supposed to do before I use it, though (-:

spoken by Andreas Fuchs on December 18, 2007 9:05 pm | Permalink
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Dock icon hiding should be easy. New icon looks nice. Changelog, someday, sure.

The Smart Replace essentially runs an rsync command. It’ll only replace older files with newer ones (ie. if a newer file exists in the destination dir, it wont be overridden). I haven’t tested this extensively.

voiced by Ankur on December 18, 2007 9:11 pm | Permalink
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Nice work Ankur and thanks for the effort.

I am now using this complied version on 10.5.1 with no problems at all (other than dock icon showing). I did not delete any prefs or plugins from 3815… just installed and ran.

Much lower on memory usage and seems snappier. (BG)

stated by Weaselboy on December 18, 2007 10:27 pm | Permalink
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Thanks, Weaselboy. That’s good to hear.

posted by Ankur on December 18, 2007 10:55 pm | Permalink
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Thanks for your efforts.

stated by Patrick on December 18, 2007 11:08 pm | Permalink
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Thanks a lot for this Ankur!

I prefer the existing icons.

I restarted Quicksilver & the dock icon was hidden again (on Leopard).

mentioned by Jono on December 18, 2007 11:28 pm | Permalink
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I can’t seem to be able to get rid of the Dock icon on leopard. I tried setting the option manually with Defaults, but that had no effect. Restarting doesn’t seem to help either. Any clues?

Glad to see Quicksilver being worked on though. Thank you for maintaining this version… the SVN trunk is not quite usable yet.

The future of Quicksilver looks bright.

reported by Chousuke on December 18, 2007 11:59 pm | Permalink
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Hmm.. I still have dock icon. The “show icon in dock” pref is checked and greyed out so I cannot uncheck it.

revealed by Weaselboy on December 19, 2007 12:03 am | Permalink
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Yea, it was greyed out for me too until I restated it.

recorded by Jono on December 19, 2007 12:08 am | Permalink
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Thanks Ankur!
Very nice. And I have a question.
- will it “autoupdate” from your site or it checks blacktree for new versions?

Or and can you point me to the “some features (such as the “smart replace” pictured above)” list?

uttered by NilColor on December 19, 2007 12:26 am | Permalink
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Just restarted and the check box is still greyed out.

spoken by Weaselboy on December 19, 2007 12:29 am | Permalink
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Just gave it a spin, seems pretty stable, but the dock icon bit for me is stuck on. Restarting QS doesn’t enable it, and for me, that’s a deal killer Otherwise, seems great! Much zippier!

declared by Jeff Byrnes on December 19, 2007 3:45 am | Permalink
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Thanks, Ankur.
One note though: you packaged your version of QS with a non-writable Info.plist, and QS needs to be able to write a key there to hide the dock icon, so no one’ll be able to do that until they manually make the file writable.

expressed by zee on December 19, 2007 4:16 am | Permalink
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Thanks, Ankur.
One note, though: you’ve made all the files and directories in Quicksilver.app non-writable. Making the directories non-writable prevents The Unarchiver from extracting the app (tar xjf works, though) and making Info.plist non-writable prevents QS from hiding the dock icon.
Can you please look into trigger scopes not working in Leopard? It’s hurting my QS a lot.

recorded by zee on December 19, 2007 4:22 am | Permalink
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Also, your build of QS seems to die without showing anything (no dialogs, no console messages, nothing) after 5-10 minutes of working, so I had to rollback.

uttered by zee on December 19, 2007 4:37 am | Permalink
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To enable the Dock icon checkbox, run
chmod 0644 /Applications/Quicksilver.app/Contents/Info.plist
I did an install build from the command line for the uploaded package, which is why the permissions were set this way. I’ve done this on the actual download as well. Sorry about this.

NilColor, it’s not my QS exactly - so it’ll still check the BTree servers for updates.
As for new features, I’ll have to do another post about them soon.

stated by Ankur on December 19, 2007 8:19 am | Permalink
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That fixed it! Thanks Ankur.

expressed by Weaselboy on December 19, 2007 8:31 am | Permalink
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Thanks for that, after rebooting my Mac the dock icon was back.

Is there anywhere we can report bugs? (No one seems to be able to decide where or how to post them at the Quicksilver forum).

As well as some old ones I’m experiencing some new ones with this version.

recorded by Jono on December 19, 2007 8:15 pm | Permalink
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Is there anywhere we can report bugs?

I don’t know if there’s any official channel; JNJ doesn’t want general bug reports at the Google Code site. Most of the developers have Leopard and are helping out with trunk, so I guess you could just email them to me.

As well as some old ones I’m experiencing some new ones with this version.

Uh oh.

voiced by Ankur on December 19, 2007 8:34 pm | Permalink
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Thanks Ankur.
About other devel features - i’ll wait for full list before run defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver "Cutting Edge Features" -bool yes in term

recorded by NilColor on December 19, 2007 10:00 pm | Permalink
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Thanks for working on this Ankur!
Is it just me or does this baby fire right up when launching!? I used to watch my resources get bogged down for 30 seconds or so before. Oh, and I’m not missing the white layer in the first pane when doing a web search, yay!

I guess this is our temp bug depository soooo, one small feature that seems to not work is the clipboard & shelf “hot corner” effect. Previously, with ‘hide after pasting’ set in prefs, moving to the area where the clipboard/shelf are hiding at the screen edge, would invoke them and they would hide when your mouse left the pane.

Thanks again! mwah!

:edit: ah, poop. App hangs now on query and requires force quit - 10.4.11, PPC G5.

composed by zeb on December 20, 2007 12:22 am | Permalink
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As well as some old ones I’m experiencing some new ones with this version.”

Uh oh.

OK, I’ll email them over. Nothing major, just a few things cropped up since the new version.
Would be handy to have somewhere to post them so that people can see what’s already been reported & what hasn’t.

proclaimed by Jono on December 20, 2007 5:57 am | Permalink
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That chmod fixed things up. By the way, is this release not supposed to work on Leopard? ‘Cause it’s purring like a kitten (pun intended) over here.

recorded by Jeff Byrnes on December 20, 2007 5:30 pm | Permalink
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Jono, I’m happy to hear the fresh install fixed up most of the bugs.

Jeff, thanks.

stated by Ankur on December 21, 2007 10:02 am | Permalink
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composed by NilColor on December 21, 2007 6:12 pm | Permalink
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Hi Ankur.
Some strange things with build from 17 Dec:
- QS trigger “Command Window with Selection (Ctrl+Esc) doesn’t work. I.e. it opens QS with empty first pane and second pane active…
- “Copy To…” action doesn’t work. Atleast it asks me to replace an older file and after i press Replace - nothing happens. BTW is it possible to set Replace button focused as it was in BlackTree build? Very handy, and now file list is under focus so I have to Tab to buttons…
stated by NilColor on December 21, 2007 6:13 pm | Permalink
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@NILCOLOR

Check out my post here. I was having quite a few problems but after trashing preferences, settings etc. & starting afresh it sorted out a lot of things

posted by Jono on December 22, 2007 10:59 pm | Permalink
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@JONO
Hmm… start from scratch?
Okkkey… i’ll try Think its a good idea ’cause i use QS for… 1.5 year without any cleanup, with huge amount of install/disable plugins and so on…

recorded by NilColor on December 25, 2007 9:56 pm | Permalink
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Ankur, this is awsome, thank you. So much more stable than running the other build on Leopard. A few notes you may or may not care about:

1) User Interface Access plug-in is still pretty buggy in Leopard. I get issues after I attempt to use the “Menu Bar Items” a few times. This is super handy for doing keyboard shortcuts in apps that don’t have them.

2) Mouse Triggers are broken in this build. At least on my MacBook Pro.

Please let me know if there is somewhere else I can report these bugs.

determined by sirris101 on December 27, 2007 4:33 am | Permalink
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@NILCOLOR
Yea, it certainly sorted most things out for me. Up until then I was wrongly thinking a lot of the problems I was having were bugs in Quicksilver.

@SIRRIS101
Re: Reporting bugs, take a look here.
Now that Quicksilver is open source & being worked on again I’m trying to get together a new list of bugs in the hope that someone will go though them & eradicate them.

posted by Jono on December 28, 2007 6:40 am | Permalink
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You should really try Launchpad (http://launchpad.net). Using a blog (or even Google code) to track changes and file bug reports and answer questions is a bad idea.

mentioned by David on December 28, 2007 10:57 am | Permalink
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Thanks for taking this up. Looking forward to future updates.

divulged by Cameron on January 13, 2008 3:45 pm | Permalink
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cmd-G does not appear to be working (should grab the file in finder)

Also, thanks for the hard work. This version seems very stable and very fast.

reasonded by Nathan on January 15, 2008 8:36 am | Permalink
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@Nathan:
You must install the Finder plugin.

written by Kenny on January 15, 2008 4:02 pm | Permalink
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@NATHAN
This doesn’t fix your problem, but a quicker way of getting items into Quicksilver is Command +Escape
(Rather than CTRL +Space, then Command +G)

announced by Jono on January 16, 2008 1:47 am | Permalink
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Kenny & Jono,

I don’t see a finder plugin and when I try to use command+escape it blows up something fierce or doesn’t allow me to select a “open with” as shown it just wanted it to point at finder for some reason.

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/6611/picture1su2.png

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/5873/picture2ia0.png

divulged by Nathan on January 17, 2008 8:40 am | Permalink
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Nathan, Option-Click “All Plugins” in the plugin pref pane and you’ll see the Finder plugin. I’m not sure why it isn’t on by default; will have to check.

proclaimed by Ankur on January 17, 2008 1:49 pm | Permalink
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Interesting, looking for more updates on this.

stated by Salman on January 17, 2008 10:46 pm | Permalink
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ANKUR, yep that’s all it was. Working fine now! Thanks!

Also, one minor bug: When using the Firefox plug and you have more then one profile directory, the /*/bookmarks.html does not work as expected. It only picks up on the first bookmark.html file.

Also, I imagine that the firefox plugin will need to be rewritten for all of the new features available in the 3.0 branch. I wonder if I can help with this?

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/1736/picture1el6.png

This is a custom catalog entry:

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/866/picture2py9.png

mentioned by Nathan on January 18, 2008 1:36 am | Permalink
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Something I’d kinda forgotten about, but thought about now. If you use quicksilver to do a move/copy on a large file(s) no copy progress shows and it can be a little misleading when the process finishes. Can this be remedied easily?

revealed by Adam on January 23, 2008 8:57 am | Permalink
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Just a heads up.
Alcor has released the source for the Tagging module.

So hopefully someone can fix it to work with this build.

determined by Jono on January 25, 2008 2:26 am | Permalink
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It looks like I get QSPreset prefixing some of the contents of my directories, anybody know why this is happening?

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/5558/picture1wl0.png

revealed by Nathan on January 28, 2008 7:17 am | Permalink
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Keep it up!, This is great and is very much appreciated!

recorded by Joe on January 29, 2008 3:30 pm | Permalink
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B55 had a rocky start for me but I ended up using appzapper to wipe out the old copy, installed the new copy, then ran the CHMOD through terminal, then launched QS and ran the two defaults through terminal, then relaunched QS… then and only then did I install any plugins.

QS is now screaming along like a toddler on a mustang. Thank you so much for doing all of this!!!

uttered by seyDoggy on February 1, 2008 4:59 am | Permalink
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seydoggy, good to hear you’ve got it running stable, no crashing right? can you be more specific about what you did? when you say “ran the CHMOD through terminal” do you mean you chmod’d the app to a certain permission in particular? can you share with us the terminal command you used? also, what do you mean by “ran the two defaults through terminal”?

thanks

stated by fogboy on February 1, 2008 4:07 pm | Permalink
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1. I AppZapped QS B54
2. I downloaded and installed QS B55 (Ankur build)
3. I opened Terminal and pasted in:
  chmod 0644 /Applications/Quicksilver.app/Contents/Info.plist
4. Press return
5. Open QS and go through the setup WITHOUT installing any plugins.
6. In terminal, paste in (and return) each of these lines:
  defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver “Cutting Edge Features” -bool yes
  
  defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver “Feature Level” 3
7. Relaunch QS
8. You can now adjust your settings and preferences and install some plugins.
expressed by seyDoggy on February 1, 2008 11:02 pm | Permalink
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super thanks so much — one caveat, when pasting the latter two terminal commands, one needs to either be sure to paste as text or, before hitting return, correct the quotes to not be smart quotes, as terminal will choke on those.

that said, your process worked for me like a charm. no crashing. thanks!

written by fogboy on February 2, 2008 1:31 am | Permalink
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@fogboy, indeed. I din’t use the pre tag (not even sure if I’m allowed, but here goes):
```
defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver "Cutting Edge Features" -bool yes
```
```
defaults write com.blacktree.Quicksilver "Feature Level" 3
```
mentioned by seyDoggy on February 2, 2008 2:06 am | Permalink
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Anyone having luck adding custon catalogue directories? Every time I add my documents folder and scan infinite levels for certain file types, it crashes like a ton of bricks. I appzapped it, installed from scratch with chmod and terminal commands with no effect.

stated by Matt on February 6, 2008 9:43 am | Permalink
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You are the man!!! Thank you a million times over!!

revealed by Jason M Hilimire on February 8, 2008 2:30 am | Permalink
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Hmm… i get MacOS X 10.5.1 (fresh install) + QS from Ankur
install + chmod + defaults (2 times)
Install Finder plugin and set “Command window with selection” shortcut to Ctrl+Esc. Doesn’t work. QS opens with empty first pane and second is active… Cmd+G doesn’t work too…
Do i miss something?
And is there any way to use “Current Application -> Menu items” trigger?

published by NilColor on February 11, 2008 10:29 pm | Permalink
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thanks, works perfectly for me on 10.5.2.

reported by josue salazar on February 18, 2008 9:47 am | Permalink
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Didn’t work here too.
I did remove ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver to a save place. Then i did start Quicksilver (Ankur build) and then installed Plugin by Plugin again just to find which plugin causes troubles it seems like the “File tagging module” prevents QS from launching properly.
The PlugIn cant be installed from the online repository too.

Oh and…in case you wan’t your old catalog files back have a look inside catalog.plist

reported by Zettt on March 2, 2008 5:15 am | Permalink
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Just tried out the latest version and noticed that “Reveal” does not seem to work.
Can someone confirm this?

determined by Mike on March 8, 2008 8:55 pm | Permalink
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Mike, see instructions posted in a comment above about enabling the Finder plugin.

recorded by Ankur on March 9, 2008 5:20 pm | Permalink
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@Ankur, thank you very much.
Since this was working “out of the box” in the old Quicksilver I did not think that an extra plug-in was needed in this version. It is working perfectly now.

stated by Mike on March 9, 2008 7:19 pm | Permalink
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I’ve had the same problem as Mike for some time, and totally missed the comments about the Finder plugin, but even if I option-click on the “All Plugins” list it doesn’t show up. Any ideas?

mentioned by Jeff Byrnes on March 10, 2008 1:10 am | Permalink
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This version is noticeably lighter and snappier than the previous B54, thanks Ankur. I’ve used for two days, but eventually couldn’t continue without access to ‘Set Tags’ action from file tagging module, which I use a lot.

Another issue, although minor, is that ‘Get Info’ action seems to do nothing.

spoken by Alex on March 12, 2008 3:09 pm | Permalink
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@Alex
Install the Finder plugin and ‘Get Info’ will work.

reported by Mike on March 16, 2008 7:31 pm | Permalink
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Hey Mike, thanks.

recorded by Alex on March 18, 2008 4:37 pm | Permalink
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I don’t know if this is a known issue, but since I started using QS with Leopard whenever I set up a keyboard trigger/hotkey it won’t display correctly in the list. CTRL-OPTION-CMD will show but not any additional “alphabetic” keys.

The triggers work fine, but it’s a bit annoying not to be able to see your specific trigger again if you happen to forget it.

Anyone else who has the same problem? Any solutions?

At last, huge thanks to for doing this Ankur!

voiced by Alex H on March 23, 2008 11:08 pm | Permalink
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Installed your build Ankur after Appzapping the old build as seydoggy said, however for some reason there are 4 plug-ins listed, which are all greyed out!

mentioned by John Rowley on March 26, 2008 5:05 pm | Permalink
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Alex, I’ll look into the problem with the triggers. This is the first I’ve heard of it.

John, the greyed-out plugins are preset ones. They’re kept “hidden” from the list of plugins unless you option-click a plugin category.

written by Ankur on March 26, 2008 7:22 pm | Permalink
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Yes i understand that, what im saying is that they are the only plug-ins. There are no others

spoken by John Rowley on March 26, 2008 7:48 pm | Permalink
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Tried a “refresh”? The plugins list is updated from the internet. The Console might have some additional info.

uttered by Ankur on March 26, 2008 8:04 pm | Permalink
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My bad, had to refresh the plugins, didn’t spot the little button down their

recorded by John Rowley on March 26, 2008 8:20 pm | Permalink
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Ankur, thanks for doing this. This release seems much faster. I’m enjoying it. I’ve run into one issue that I’m hoping someone here can help me with. When I use the built-in trigger with proxy object to select multiple files it only selects one file. I’ve tried creating my own triggers and find the same issue. Any ideas of what I could be doing wrong?

divulged by Coco on March 29, 2008 2:35 am | Permalink
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I’m new to Quicksilver and don’t understand how to install the Finder plugin. If I option click the categories (plugins tab, All plugins), nothing new shows up.

Could someone take pity and walk me through it?

Using version b54 (3815) on OSX 10.4.11

reasonded by tbaucells on April 1, 2008 1:00 am | Permalink
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Hmm… BezelHUD http://www.mygnu.com/julius/proj_bezel.html
won’t show a catalog list?

Edit: it actually says on the site it’s not compatible.

voiced by Daz on April 3, 2008 1:36 pm | Permalink
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I’ve used appdelete and reinstalled 100% clean. I’m running Leopard.

Reveal in Finder and many other functions other than basic launching don’t seem to work… should they be? or should i try something else to fix this?

expressed by efoiv on April 6, 2008 10:26 am | Permalink
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Ankur, you are the MAN. The difference between B54 and B5X is incredible. Thank you SO much. If there is anything I can do pls let me know.

divulged by Anonymous on April 23, 2008 8:06 am | Permalink
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I too can confirm that Reveal doesn’t seem to be working (tested on 2 different Mac so far).

declared by Corentin on April 25, 2008 1:02 am | Permalink
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Reveal doesn’t seem to be working

Yes, but have you installed the Finder plugin?

recorded by Ankur on April 25, 2008 5:55 pm | Permalink
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Reveal works for just fine for me.

recorded by seyDoggy on April 25, 2008 9:34 pm | Permalink
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Ankur, you are right, it was the Finder plug-in. I deselected it then reselected it again and it immediately worked. Weird…

announced by Corentin on April 25, 2008 9:44 pm | Permalink
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One little thing I don;t quite get though. The relationship with the regular branch of QS doesn’t seem clear. For instance, blacktree.com has the build number 3815 whereas this one says 3814. Is 3815 actually newer?? Does it incorporate any of the changes provided in 3814??

posted by Corentin on April 26, 2008 3:16 am | Permalink
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How the heck do I assign a trigger to “show shelf”?

proclaimed by wordup on April 27, 2008 2:08 pm | Permalink
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Hey Ankur, I’m having trouble getting Show Menu Items to work in the new version. This was a problem with b54 as well. Any news on this feature? Thanks and let me know if there is anything I can help with.

divulged by Lander on April 29, 2008 3:54 am | Permalink
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Damn, cant seem to get itunes play/pause to work, it doesnt show in actions but is enabled in triggers

divulged by crawen on August 15, 2008 9:29 pm | Permalink

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