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.
92 Comments so far
Leave a commentWhoaa, great improvement !
Really happy to see you are so fanatically busy with keeping QS alive
Also i was wondering if you have a paypal account or anything (amazon wish list) to donate towards your work ?
Keep it up !
mentioned by Smeevil on March 26, 2008 8:39 pm | Permalink
Any release date in sight ?
revealed by Geoffroy Magnan on March 26, 2008 8:42 pm | Permalink
This is so great. Thanks for your work on quicksilver (+ plugins). Can’t wait for a release!
published by Martin Ström on March 26, 2008 8:52 pm | Permalink
Hey Ankur,
I’m quite looking forward to the improved speed of quicksilver and I’d state again that you’re doing a great job working on quicksilver. Keep up your work!
published by Martin Hauser on March 26, 2008 8:57 pm | Permalink
I assume this is the “new” quicksilver, not the old branch? Anyway, glad to see it’s alive. Good work!
spoken by Chousuke on March 26, 2008 9:03 pm | Permalink
Thanks.
The release will take a while. I’ll be very short of time until the end of the year. There are also a number of major decisions to be made regarding triggers, some of the plugins and some old features.
Chousuke, this is still the “old” Tiger-compatible QS.
declared by Ankur on March 26, 2008 9:14 pm | Permalink
Thanks for all the hard work you’ve put in so far improving QS. I installed your latest version after discovering your blog by accident. Ever since QS has been markedly snappier and the number of crashes has diminished greatly. Keep up the good work. I can’t wait to try out your next version.
announced by Hugh on March 26, 2008 9:26 pm | Permalink
My current QS instance is 10 times that and growing. So, do want! (-:
Is that the development branch?
disclosed by Andreas Fuchs on March 26, 2008 9:29 pm | Permalink
Keep up the great work, this is really cool!! Thanks!
determined by Dennis Kirschner on March 26, 2008 11:11 pm | Permalink
My quicksilver is over 11 times that.. I’d kill for this next release!
disclosed by Tyler B on March 26, 2008 11:53 pm | Permalink
Will this new version of QuickSilver be released as open source? Under which license?
recorded by Matthieu Cormier on March 26, 2008 11:56 pm | Permalink
Drool. You need any testing?
reasonded by Steven Fisher on March 27, 2008 1:06 am | Permalink
Really great to hear that my favourite application is in good hands
disclosed by Gernot on March 27, 2008 3:44 am | Permalink
If you’re a student and want to hack on objective-C code why not apply to Google to do it? Looks like they’ve grants available for some GNUstep stuff:
http://gnustep.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-summer-of-code-by-monday-march.html
mentioned by Paul on March 27, 2008 9:35 pm | Permalink
Oh SNAP! I’m excited.
voiced by seyDoggy on March 28, 2008 2:11 am | Permalink
I know you have stated previously that money is not your motive for developing QS. If not $’s, is there anything else you need? I’d provide to the best of my ability
announced by Hans Czajkowski Jørgensen on March 28, 2008 3:29 am | Permalink
Can’t wait for this release! My QS process currently uses 40+ MB!
expressed by Bruce Giovando on March 28, 2008 4:42 am | Permalink
Great work…. i would however like to use this interface: http://www.mygnu.com/julius/proj_bezel.html
Any clue why i cannot use it on your builds?
composed by lowfi on March 29, 2008 12:54 am | Permalink
May the god I don’t actually believe in bless the pants right off you. Many thanks for continuing this work.
stated by piminnowcheez on March 29, 2008 8:32 am | Permalink
Matthieu, I’ll hopefully commit most of the changes back to the svn repo, but I have to discuss a few things with Alcor first. Testing etc. might follow after that.
Hans, thanks, but I can’t think of anything :).
Lowfi, from the Bezel HUD website:
These builds are the Tiger-compatible B5X branch. Bezel HUD requires Leopard.
reasonded by Ankur on March 29, 2008 10:34 am | Permalink
Thank you for your work on this!
stated by Geordan on March 30, 2008 12:05 am | Permalink
damn……..
getting the memory footprint to be a 1/10 of what it was is no easy task.
I’m looking forward to the day when my RSS feed indicates “DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE”
Keep up the excellent work…I’m sure I’ll feel like donating when the time comes around!
determined by firas on March 30, 2008 5:27 pm | Permalink
Many thanks for the great work!
recorded by Jeeva on March 30, 2008 7:40 pm | Permalink
I can’t wait until the day that Quicksilver comes back to me from its crashy-memory-slug death.
Thank you so much for this!
determined by David on April 1, 2008 3:49 am | Permalink
Many thanks.
Apple: For the love of God, PLEASE hire Ankur and make Quicksilver part of Leopard!
voiced by Matthew on April 1, 2008 6:47 pm | Permalink
ankur this looks really really good.
published by soundmasterj on April 3, 2008 6:51 am | Permalink
+1 Thanks!
Really appreciate it!
Yes, Quicksilver should be included with Apple, and Ankur should be hired!
expressed by Joe on April 6, 2008 9:46 pm | Permalink
Any interest in distributing a version with a crash reporter like some of those discussed here in it?
http://daringfireball.net/2006/02/scr_addenda
might generate a lot of noise at first, but a super stable product later.
voiced by Stefan on April 7, 2008 11:30 pm | Permalink
Hope it’s ready soon… thank you for your effort!
recorded by QSfan on April 13, 2008 9:17 am | Permalink
thanks for the continued work on my favorite app. can’t wait for the new version and for some work on updating various plug-ins”several do not work well. keep up the good work.
uttered by jonna on April 15, 2008 2:37 pm | Permalink
Thank you so much! Please keep up the good work.
announced by Zhen Sun on April 21, 2008 9:36 pm | Permalink
I’ve been experiencing random crashes in leopard that weren’t there in tiger. I’ll just be pulling up a script or a program and the app will just crash, no error, no nothing. I have a terminal script (qs.sh) that basically does
killall Quicksilver && open -a Quicksilverto bring it back quickly, but its still annoying. I think i might pull down a copy of the source myself and tinker. I wouldn’t mind pitching in with the cleanup effort, I am going to have time for that kind of thing this summer, for the first time in a while!uttered by peelman on April 22, 2008 10:18 am | Permalink
I can hardly wait for the newest version to be available. Let us know if there is anything that we can do to help move this along.
published by mandaris on April 26, 2008 8:38 am | Permalink
I can’t wait to get this “cleaned” QS!! My main concern with QS always was that it did like to eat my ressources and quite some features crashed it. But I recently noticed… I can not live without it anymore. Simply moving a file to the trash, which is an easy task, I can not do anymore without QS O.o I transformed from a mouse, icon-clicking monster into a keyboard loving monster
So I’m really looking forward to this version.
Hopefully it will be very soon?? Maybe??
But why is the bezel HUD not compatible with the cleaned version? Even if I’m running it on Leopard… I managed to install it but it likes to crash… :/
voiced by Chris on April 28, 2008 4:44 am | Permalink
Can’t Hardly Wait
reported by Fred Phelps on May 3, 2008 7:13 am | Permalink
Any more News on this? I would love to do some testing with an alpha or beta version
composed by peelman on May 8, 2008 3:44 am | Permalink
I too would love some more updated information even it consisted only of, “It’s in progress, I haven’t forgotten about it. Thanks!” You’re Quicksilver is great, faster and I love it already! It’s recent weight loss is excellent news too as older machines will have an easier time of it when running under a full workload.
recorded by Darryl on May 9, 2008 3:17 pm | Permalink
“It’s in progress, I haven’t forgotten about it. Thanks!”
But seriously, while I’m happy to keep this version of QS alive for a while longer, it’s roughly 64,000 lines of code so please don’t be disappointed if there aren’t major releases every three months.
recorded by Ankur on May 9, 2008 5:31 pm | Permalink
Would it be helpful to move this development over to sourceforge? I’m not trying to tell you what to do or anything, but maybe pushing it into a wider development community would be beneficial.
Quicksilver’s got a heck of a following, as I’m sure you know, and I’m sure that we could get at least a small team of developers working on it.
Thanks a ton for picking up the slack with quicksilver, its been a must have on my Mac for a long time.
mentioned by Jon Buys on May 10, 2008 1:01 am | Permalink
Ankur,
Have you committed the changes you’ve made to the SVN repository lately? I just checked out revision 106, going to give it another look.
announced by peelman on May 12, 2008 1:49 am | Permalink
Any updates on this Ankur?
proclaimed by Stephen Spence on May 23, 2008 9:02 pm | Permalink
“But seriously, while I’m happy to keep this version of QS alive for a while longer, it’s roughly 64,000 lines of code so please don’t be disappointed if there aren’t major releases every three months.”
-Ankur
The guy is still working on it. Please be patient, I’m sure no one here wants to finish this more then he does at this point.
stated by mandaris on May 24, 2008 10:58 pm | Permalink
Please sir, can I have some more?
recorded by Oliver on May 27, 2008 5:17 am | Permalink
P.S. Your RSS feeds aren’t set up right, I can’t get any of the articles to show up there. (Safari 2/3 etc)
stated by Firas on May 27, 2008 9:29 am | Permalink
I can’t get the RSS articles to work either (the RSS comments work).
recorded by Matt on May 29, 2008 2:25 am | Permalink
I’ve tested and tested… and the feeds seem to be working.
expressed by Ankur on May 29, 2008 4:10 pm | Permalink
The RSS feeds are working fine for me.
revealed by Jon on May 29, 2008 8:22 pm | Permalink
Safari Version 3.1.1 (5525.18)
http://www.mattbovett.com/nope.png
reasonded by Matt on May 30, 2008 10:37 am | Permalink
Same safari version here, and works great:
http://www.lowbatteries.com/temp/lipidity-feeds-yep.png
disclosed by Steven on May 31, 2008 4:38 am | Permalink
Just wondering if there’s an ETA at all on the new scrubbed down Quicksilver :).
Don’t mean to nag! I really do appreciate your hard work, sir!
divulged by jolleyjoe on June 2, 2008 6:37 am | Permalink
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uttered by nick on June 6, 2008 11:37 am | Permalink
Hey appreciate all your great work Ankur! Could you please add support for BezelHUD, its by far the best theme for QS. THANKS!
revealed by Jeremy on June 8, 2008 9:01 am | Permalink
Very much looking forward to a new version of QS. It’s one of those apps I just can’t live with out!
uttered by Ben Woodruff on June 9, 2008 1:44 pm | Permalink
Sorry Ankur, i know you are very busy but…
Thanks for your work!
composed by ben on June 9, 2008 7:45 pm | Permalink
Really looking forward to this. Thanks Ankur!
posted by JamieS on June 28, 2008 4:52 am | Permalink
Ankur, thanks for all your great work keeping Quicksilver alive and kicking. Is there any chance the code will find its way to github.com (to use GIT instead of SVN)? It would make it much easier for others to fork, track, and contribute to Quicksilver. It would also make it easier for you to merge in submitted changes (than the more cumbersome SVN).
Just a suggestion. I can hardly wait for your first release version.
written by joccam on June 29, 2008 1:23 am | Permalink
I am pretty sure you are busy as hell with this, but just to let you know, you have our support
Just a little “i am still alive” would be great, heh!
Keep up the good work!
stated by a fan on July 1, 2008 8:05 pm | Permalink
Yes something like “i’m working on it” would be great. Can’t believe that development really stopped…
professed by Zettt on July 5, 2008 7:26 am | Permalink
Thank you to all the people saying “Thanks”.
I don’t know myself, but discussions are happening. Hopefully soonish.
I’d love to, but unfortunately I don’t have Leopard…
Git looks promising and I’ve been meaning to play with it, but that suggestion will have to run by Alcor and the other developers.
divulged by Ankur on July 5, 2008 11:08 pm | Permalink
Sounds good. Thanks for keeping in touch.
announced by joccam on July 6, 2008 1:03 am | Permalink
Yeah!!! You just made my weekend, Ankur!! Can’t wait for the trimmer Quicksilver!
stated by Michelle on July 6, 2008 1:17 pm | Permalink
In that case… do you accept donations?
spoken by lowfi on July 7, 2008 7:06 am | Permalink
Lowfi, scroll down…
published by Ankur on July 7, 2008 1:47 pm | Permalink
Love Qs - hoping the next release happens before Butler goes payware
posted 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.
spoken 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.
voiced 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.
revealed by Ankur on July 12, 2008 1:40 pm | Permalink
Aha! These things work well in Quicksilver-b56a2.
Awesome.
proclaimed 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.
declared 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.
uttered 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?)
revealed 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.
mentioned 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?
announced by Anonymous on August 18, 2008 8:03 am | Permalink
Probably two months. Probably.
stated 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!-)
stated 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.
published by joe on August 19, 2008 4:48 pm | Permalink
2 Months? Sounds good.
announced by Kedoa on August 25, 2008 1:10 am | Permalink
Oh I am so waiting for this. Mine keep freezing constantly…
stated by Chris on August 29, 2008 1:43 am | Permalink
This makes me very excited. Very very excited.
written 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.
recorded 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!!!
expressed 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.
proclaimed 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.
proclaimed by orta on October 1, 2008 12:43 pm | Permalink
Keep up the good work! Thank you ankur! Anxiously awaiting…
expressed 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)?
divulged by Devin on October 28, 2008 5:54 pm | Permalink
Any news on a release?
revealed 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 =)
published by Tyler on November 10, 2008 8:09 am | Permalink
I’m wondering the same thing, Tyler.
reasonded 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.
disclosed 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.
revealed by Ankur on November 28, 2008 8:25 am | Permalink
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