What is the current status of Quicksilver (particularly, re: use under Snow Leopard)?

[rk77]

I am a potential 'new user' of Quicksilver. I've been curious about
Quicksilver for a while, but my impression is that it's a program that
was created some time ago and is no longer being further developed or
upgraded; therefore, I'm not sure how useful it is at the current
time.

Has Quicksilver been superceded by changes in later Mac OS's --
particularly Snow Leopard -- or does it continue to be useful even for
users of the that OS?

Thanks.

[philostein]

It was created a long time ago. It's still very useful in Snow
Leopard.

There's a handful of annoying quirks that can be fixed with good
configuration and behaviour. Many of those will be improved by a new
version coming soon.

It works in Lion also. Get in touch if you need help with the setup.

[Patrick Robertson]

Adding on what Phil said; Quicksilver did go though a time (mainly for about 9 months last year) when not much work was done on it. But through the hard work of many of us here it is now being actively developed and there is a strong development team who seam to be working well together - pointing Quicksilver in the right direction.

For example; whilst in the past we've mainly been focusing on bug fixes, we're now considering bug fixes AND new features, as well as new plugins etc.

I've used Quicksilver every day for almost two years on Snow Leopard, and testing on Lion shows that it's still current and working.

There's also a strong support team, so I wouldn't be afraid to give Quicksilver a go.

But as Phil said - get in touch if you need any help. Quicksilver can be quite a steep learning curve but it is definitely worth it. No doubt

[Luis Martins]

Im using it with snow leopard and strongly suggest you to invest some time learning it, you wont be sorry.

I've used Launchbar and Alfred during a period of time, but nothing comes close to Quicksilver. It has some quirks at this point, but that also depends on which plugins you'll be using.

[rk77]

Thanks for those replies. So is the '58 beta' the version to
download? Or should I wait for the new version philostein mentioned?

I also noticed the following from a poster at MacUpdate (post is a
year old):

"B57 is very stable for me, no crashes, only the dropdown hangs once
in a while and takes a minute to recover.
B58, unfortunately, crashes all the time on my machine (Macbook C2D,
10.6.2), for now I will stick to B57."

Also, what documentation should I be looking for to start working with
QS?

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On Apr 12, 6:35 pm, Patrick Robertson <robertson.patr...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Adding on what Phil said; Quicksilver did go though a time (mainly for about
> 9 months last year) when not much work was done on it. But through the hard
> work of many of us here it is now being actively developed and there is a
> strong development team who seam to be working well together - pointing
> Quicksilver in the right direction.
>
> For example; whilst in the past we've mainly been focusing on bug fixes,
> we're now considering bug fixes AND new features, as well as new plugins
> etc.
>
> I've used Quicksilver every day for almost two years on Snow Leopard, and
> testing on Lion shows that it's still current and working.
>
> There's also a strong support team, so I wouldn't be afraid to give
> Quicksilver a go.
> But as Phil said - get in touch if you need any help. Quicksilver can be
> quite a steep learning curve but it is definitely worth it. No doubt
>

[Rob McBroom]

On Apr 13, 2011, at 2:21 PM, rk77 wrote:

> Thanks for those replies. So is the '58 beta' the version to
> download? Or should I wait for the new version philostein mentioned?

I think if you’re new, you won’t necessarily miss the things that are broken in B58. You’ll have plenty to explore and keep you busy until the next release.

> B58, unfortunately, crashes all the time on my machine (Macbook C2D,

> 10.6.2), for now I will stick to B57.”

Of all the problems with B58, I haven’t known stability to be one of them. Just don’t install the AirPort plug-in!

> Also, what documentation should I be looking for to start working with
> QS?

There are a lot of good screencasts and tutorials out there that mostly still apply. But besides random Google results, the best place to start is probably the wiki.

http://qsapp.com/wiki

--
Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>

[Leveebreaks]

Today I got the Compress action to show the green icon in Snow
Leopard. I am very happy :)

[Patrick Robertson]

Awesome!

Did you get this done by changing com.apple.archiveutility in the Info.plist of the plugin?

I'll submit a new plugin with the new icons - I completely forgot to do this a while back!

[Leveebreaks]

Yes, that is correct. I know nothing about computers but Google helped
me :)


On 14 Apr, 01:58, Patrick Robertson <robertson.patr...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Awesome!
>
> Did you get this done by changing com.apple.archiveutility in the Info.plist
> of the plugin?
>
> I'll submit a new plugin with the new icons - I completely forgot to do this
> a while back!
>