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?

determined 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

recorded 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.

reasonded 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 (-:

reasonded 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.

proclaimed 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)

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

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

recorded 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).

posted 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.

expressed 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.

expressed 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.

announced 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?

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

stated 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!

recorded 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.

proclaimed 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.

proclaimed 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.

reasonded 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.

stated 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.

posted 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.

recorded 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.

uttered 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.

posted 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.

reported by Ankur on December 21, 2007 10:02 am | Permalink

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