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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announced by NilColor on December 21, 2007 6:12 pm | Permalink
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…
announced by NilColor on December 21, 2007 6:13 pm | Permalink
@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
professed by Jono on December 22, 2007 10:59 pm | Permalink
@JONO
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…
Hmm… start from scratch?
Okkkey… i’ll try
composed by NilColor on December 25, 2007 9:56 pm | Permalink
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.
uttered by sirris101 on December 27, 2007 4:33 am | Permalink
@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.
recorded by Jono on December 28, 2007 6:40 am | Permalink
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.
composed by David on December 28, 2007 10:57 am | Permalink
Thanks for taking this up. Looking forward to future updates.
recorded by Cameron on January 13, 2008 3:45 pm | Permalink
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.
voiced by Nathan on January 15, 2008 8:36 am | Permalink
@Nathan:
You must install the Finder plugin.
proclaimed by Kenny on January 15, 2008 4:02 pm | Permalink
@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)
determined by Jono on January 16, 2008 1:47 am | Permalink
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.
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proclaimed by Nathan on January 17, 2008 8:40 am | Permalink
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.
mentioned by Ankur on January 17, 2008 1:49 pm | Permalink
Interesting, looking for more updates on this.
professed by Salman on January 17, 2008 10:46 pm | Permalink
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?
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This is a custom catalog entry:
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voiced by Nathan on January 18, 2008 1:36 am | Permalink
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?
stated by Adam on January 23, 2008 8:57 am | Permalink
Just a heads up.
Alcor has released the source for the Tagging module.
So hopefully someone can fix it to work with this build.
published by Jono on January 25, 2008 2:26 am | Permalink
It looks like I get QSPreset prefixing some of the contents of my directories, anybody know why this is happening?
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uttered by Nathan on January 28, 2008 7:17 am | Permalink
Keep it up!, This is great and is very much appreciated!
announced by Joe on January 29, 2008 3:30 pm | Permalink
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
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
published by fogboy on February 1, 2008 4:07 pm | Permalink
I AppZapped QS B54
I downloaded and installed QS B55 (Ankur build)
I opened Terminal and pasted in:
chmod 0644 /Applications/Quicksilver.app/Contents/Info.plist
Press return
Open QS and go through the setup WITHOUT installing any plugins.
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
Relaunch QS
You can now adjust your settings and preferences and install some plugins.
expressed by seyDoggy on February 1, 2008 11:02 pm | Permalink
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!
uttered by fogboy on February 2, 2008 1:31 am | Permalink
@fogboy, indeed. I din’t use the pre tag (not even sure if I’m allowed, but here goes):
uttered by seyDoggy on February 2, 2008 2:06 am | Permalink
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.
revealed by Matt on February 6, 2008 9:43 am | Permalink
You are the man!!! Thank you a million times over!!
recorded by Jason M Hilimire on February 8, 2008 2:30 am | Permalink
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?
expressed by NilColor on February 11, 2008 10:29 pm | Permalink
thanks, works perfectly for me on 10.5.2.
determined by josue salazar on February 18, 2008 9:47 am | Permalink
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
announced by Zettt on March 2, 2008 5:15 am | Permalink
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