Quicksilver’s losing weight; a far cry from the 30+ MB RAM usage it once required while idling. The speed at which it runs is also nearing “spectacular” status.
Not for human consumption. Yet.
Quicksilver’s losing weight; a far cry from the 30+ MB RAM usage it once required while idling. The speed at which it runs is also nearing “spectacular” status.
Not for human consumption. Yet.
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revealed by Ankur on July 7, 2008 1:47 pm | Permalink
Love Qs - hoping the next release happens before Butler goes payware
declared by Andrew on July 8, 2008 11:29 pm | Permalink
I’ve heard / red that there was a new version with the same build number on google (code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list) (btw It’s a bugfix tho nothing like ankur’s version who doesn’t only fix bugs, but also rewrites / clenses code (i think:-) )
The article was on 43folders (www.43folders.com/2008/07/08/quicksilver-update)
So for the people who can’t wait .. try that one.
recorded by Jasper on July 9, 2008 8:36 am | Permalink
I noticed a couple things you can’t do in Quicksilver Cleaned.
I can no longer send a group of files to the trash (delete multiple files). I can no longer move a group of files to another location.
I can grab the files and it looks like it’s going to work, but it only ends up moving one of the files.
recorded by Matt on July 12, 2008 3:02 am | Permalink
Matt:
I have noticed this as well.
divulged by Joe on July 12, 2008 5:13 am | Permalink
“Quicksilver cleaned”
is not released yet.
For people wanting to try prerelease versions, use the download from the Google code project. I’m committing many of the improvements there as well.
I just tested this with all the different permutations I could think of (in multiple versions, with different types of ‘groups’ of files) and it always worked. Hmm… maybe a Leo thing.
uttered by Ankur on July 12, 2008 1:40 pm | Permalink
Aha! These things work well in Quicksilver-b56a2.
Awesome.
uttered by Matt Bovett on July 12, 2008 2:40 pm | Permalink
I noticed that in Quicksilver-b56a2, though, you can’t use the Delete (Erase) feature. When you hit enter with “Delete” selected (pictured in screenshot below), Quicksilver gets sent to the back if you have other apps open, and then when you click Quicksilver to bring it back forward and confirm the deletion, you’ll see that the file didn’t actually get deleted.
http://www.mattbovett.com/qscleaned-del.png
I used to use this feature a lot. Especially from within the Trash itself, because some files are stubborn, but with Quicksilver, you used to always be able to delete anything no matter what—even if it was in use—which was nice.
voiced by Matt Bovett on July 13, 2008 5:29 am | Permalink
Thanks for the reminder - I have a fix for that which I’ll commit soon.
voiced by Ankur on July 13, 2008 11:38 am | Permalink
Any ETA for spicandspanQS-1.0?
Or how about Github’bing the source so we can all play with it? (or is it there already, and I missed ann’t?)
voiced by occam on August 15, 2008 7:31 am | Permalink
For those of you who haven’t noticed, the old download link points to the google code page for quicksilver (http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list).
Although he did say that some of the code was being put in the main branch, I don’t know how much is in that release.
Also, if you’re interested, you can listen to episode 100 of Mac Break Weekly and hear the original author of quicksilver talk about the status of the project. He goes a little into the details of how there are a number of developers with their own versions of the application.
written by mandaris on August 16, 2008 12:31 am | Permalink
i know your a busy guy but, could you pretty please give us an ETA?
disclosed by Anonymous on August 18, 2008 8:03 am | Permalink
Probably two months. Probably.
written by Ankur on August 18, 2008 9:24 am | Permalink
Thank you for giving us some idea. Now I don’t need to poll this board so often for the next 60 days!-)
written by occam on August 18, 2008 11:03 pm | Permalink
occam: Aww, don’t go sayin’ that. He won’t give us more ETA’s if it’s going to start driving away traffic ;). Or maybe he’ll have to make shorter ETA’s :D.
In all seriousness, thanks again Ankur for the hard work! Keep it up.
stated by joe on August 19, 2008 4:48 pm | Permalink
2 Months? Sounds good.
proclaimed by Kedoa on August 25, 2008 1:10 am | Permalink
Oh I am so waiting for this. Mine keep freezing constantly…
divulged by Chris on August 29, 2008 1:43 am | Permalink
This makes me very excited. Very very excited.
divulged by Anonymous on September 5, 2008 1:39 pm | Permalink
This is terribly exciting. There is no good reason for me to be as excited as I am for a software update. But I am.
mentioned by Dan Uebelein on September 5, 2008 1:41 pm | Permalink
Ankur,
Thank you for your work. I just found this site and am very excited for the release of your cleaned up Quicksilver in (hopefully) about a month.
Just subscribed to the RSS for the site to keep up.
Thanks!!!
professed by Ethan on September 18, 2008 12:41 pm | Permalink
Hey, maybe you’ve already done something like this, but I think QS should definitely have Quick Look capabilities. Whenever I’ve seen people’s ideas for it on forums, they want it added as an action. However, I think there is a better way.
Inside the “Command” menu in the preferences, there is a place to set spacebar behavior. If one of these options was to invoke Quick Look, it would be really consistent with QL elsewhere. When a file is selected, and the focus is still on the “noun” or whatever, one could press the spacebar and a QL window would pop up over QS, and when the spacebar is pressed again, the QL window would close and QS would come back into focus.
I’m no programmer…at all…but that seems like it should be possible, and would be extremely useful.
published by Devin on September 25, 2008 9:07 am | Permalink
Thanks a nice idea Devin. Good luck ankur, just another guy looking forwards to seeing your changes.
declared by orta on October 1, 2008 12:43 pm | Permalink
Keep up the good work! Thank you ankur! Anxiously awaiting…
determined by Mark on October 21, 2008 3:04 am | Permalink
Hey, I’m just wondering, will your new version of QS be able to read album art fetched by iTunes (not embedded into the files themselves)?
spoken by Devin on October 28, 2008 5:54 pm | Permalink
Any news on a release?
disclosed by ranathari on November 7, 2008 8:28 am | Permalink
I’m really confused.. is the latest version of Quicksilver the one from this blog or the one in the Google Code repository (http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list) ? Ankur, I can’t figure out if you guys are working together or on separate branches. I remember that your version was very “lean”, and I’m wondering if the Google Code version has those improvements built in?
Hmm.. I just noticed that the old download link on this site (http://lipidity.com/software/quicksilver/) now points to the Google Code site..
Also (have to ask) — any news on a release?
Thanks =)
uttered by Tyler on November 10, 2008 8:09 am | Permalink
I’m wondering the same thing, Tyler.
published by Matt on November 10, 2008 2:10 pm | Permalink
I hope that this project will not dye. This is best app ever developed. Cleaning thing look promising but take time and I am not sure it is still active. Google Code builds on my G4 are either not working or trimmed in functionality. I am searching all the time for a sign of ongoing development. Sadly there are less and less interest.
reasonded by Maciek on November 19, 2008 6:55 pm | Permalink
Apologies to people waiting. http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/downloads/list is the link for QS downloads. I have not been working on it recently, but others are making progress.
uttered by Ankur on November 28, 2008 8:25 am | Permalink
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