Discontinued?

[Mark kk]

Has QSB updates stopped? or is it discontinued? Otherwise, when do you
guys expect a new update. QSB is the best!

[dmaclach]

Hey folks...

For all intents and purposes QSB is currently in maintenance mode.
Google is no longer funding it's development, so the team that was
working on QSB are all now working on different projects within Google
(mostly Chrome). I check in occasionally to the mailing list when I
have time, but have been very busy on Chrome development. I will try
and do better at checking in, and if somebody would like to take the
reins, I am more than happy to pass them over.

Sorry for the news...

Cheers,
Dave

[m3kwong]

Maybe you guys can go for a donation model. When you have enough money try to belt out the next version. Some sort of paypal donation.

Mark

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[Joel Esler]

Its sad to add it go, but a couple of projects that fill a similar role have popped up in it's place.

Alfred is the one I use now.

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[Ryto]

Same here. It comes to a point where solid ongoing development and support trumps a good legacy product, even one with as good a past as QSB (and I include quicksilver in that) -- I mostly just don't have time to spend fiddling with a project in maintenance mode. Ironically, the mantra of Quicksilver was originally "act without doing". The developer of Alfred is currently taking on the 1 or 2 really vital functionalities of QSB including global key commands, according to progress updates. The only extra thing I use now is Spark to set up the global key commands until they are rolled out in Alfred.

[Christopher Calo]

OMG! Alfred is amazing.

[Mark Kwong]

Actually, QSB works very well in this current form.  The most used function of QSB is for me to double tap the CMD button, then search stuff from Google. 99% of the time.  The other searches are done by Spotlight. For keyboard shortcuts, I use BetterTouchTool (free).  

The free version Alfred doesn't even do as much as spotlight, the extra features that you have to pay for does not do much more than QSB. And If you want almost the exact replica but more features and customize-ability , use QuickSilver.

Mark

[Nicole Gfroerer]

Pardon me for being out of the loop, but I've just done Moma searches for Alfred and "Alfred dogfood" but am not getting anything that looks like an application… what am I missing out on? :)

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[Gordon Fontenot]

alfredapp.com

[Nicole Gfroerer]

Ah, thank you! I was so in the mode of home-baked apps.

[David Coldrick]

Agreed, Mark. I use QSB as it is, despite having LaunchBar and Alfred, simply because what I want to do 99% of the time is search on Google, launch an app, or open a folder, and QSB does this perfectly well.

Thanks to the devs for getting it to this point.

Regards,

David

[Mark Kwong]

I guess Google stop funding it because it works perfectly well when searching Google! Amongst other things.  Not much need to further bloat good software or fix something that ain't broke?

Come to think of it, i have no complaints, or any desperate wants for improvement from QSB.  The programmers did a very good job.

Mark

[Michael Ihnat]

I echo the countless folks desiring further development and at least maintenance of QSB. IMHO it is still the best and the only suitable progeny of QS. I wish I was a developer to putter with it but as with the others I am willing to chip in morally and monetarily to see that this project doesn’t die.

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[Marc Balaguer Rasillo]

Not really agree. There's no support for good plugins or triggers (like the yubnub one in QuickSilver).

[Brian Edginton]

It is an open project, you can always create your own plugins. And the developers are still very responsive to questions.

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[Dave MacLachlan]

Actually we haven't been good recently (IMHO). I will try and stay on top of things a bit better though.

Cheers,

Dave

[Paul]

I agree with Marc: Products get stale without ongoing attention. But maybe someone can help me out.

Frankly, I miss Google Desktop. My biggest problem is finding documents on my computer, gmail messages, bookmarks, etc. by content. I have thousands of docs from multiple sources and in multiple formats (including gmail, pdf, doc, odt, html, others). I don't need regex for Internet searches - that isn't practical - just on my machine. If I know what I'm looking for is in a file containing recognizable text, I'll use grep. Mostly, though, I spend a lot of time being frustrated.

Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated.

[Paul]

Dave,

Thank you for planning to look in on us more frequently. It's been a while since I did coding (I knew it was time to move up to management when one day I couldn't think up one more variable name), but I'm kind of desperate. Per my other post a few minutes ago, I need to be able to search on my drives and through my gmail messages based on content and with regex. The docs are in a variety of formats (pdf, doc, html, others). Is this a possible plug-in for QSB and, if so, can you point me to where I should start? Thanks very much.

Paul Hindes
sed...@gmail.com

[m3kwong]

Spotlight does all of that, why don' t you use it?

Mark

[Art Awake]

I'm with you, I was broken geared to feel qsb was not moving forward,
then I discovered Alfred and things got better. That kid is doing a
great job, and qsb team did too while it lasted....
I love chrome and I fully support the idea of developing the browser
even if it means sacrificing qsb.

On Apr 5, 4:02 am, Joel Esler <joel.es...@me.com> wrote:
> Its sad to add it go, but a couple of projects that fill a similar role have popped up in it's place.  
>
> Alfred is the one I use now.  
>
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>

> On Apr 5, 2011, at 12:06 AM, dmaclach <dmacl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hey folks...
>
> > For all intents and purposes QSB is currently in maintenance mode.
> > Google is no longer funding it's development, so the team that was
> > working on QSB are all now working on different projects within Google
> > (mostly Chrome). I check in occasionally to the mailing list when I
> > have time, but have been very busy on Chrome development. I will try
> > and do better at checking in, and if somebody would like to take the
> > reins, I am more than happy to pass them over.
>
> > Sorry for the news...
>
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
>
> > On Apr 4, 7:22 pm, Mark kk <m3kw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Has QSB updates stopped? or is it discontinued? Otherwise, when do you
> >> guys expect a new update.  QSB is the best!
>
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[Marcel Hild]

maybe you should keep an eye on quicksilver.

the development there gained some momentum again and they are close to releasing an update which should have most of the broken things fixed and even include a new update mechanism.

check out http://qsapp.com/

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[Paul]

Thank you, Mark. 

I've been unable to locate a gmail plugin, other than one that looks klugey - it appears to require Apple Mail. Do you know of a gmail plugin for Spotlight? Also, I don't believe I can use regular expressions with Spotlight. Am I wrong?

Paul

[dmaclach]

Doing this efficiently is almost impossible. Are you willing to wait
on a grep -R /?

[Mark Kwong]

Actually I just have Mail download ALL my Gmail into my HD using the pop service that google provides. Then spotlight searches it.  If you can afford 8 gigs on your HD(if you have that much mail), that is a very good way to go.

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[Joel Esler]

Except Gmail likes to limit how many emails you can download at one time, and thusly, it takes like 4 days to download your email.

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[m3kwong]

Just download it once and you are done.  Just make sure you check your mail using Mail.

[Paul]

Marcel - Thank you for pointing me back to QS. I'll take another look.

[Paul]

Dave - I'm more organized than that! I can narrow down the number of files to grep through. But what intelligently extracts text from, e.g., pdf, html, etc.? Google Desktop's index was mighty handy and fast. Thank you for responding. - Paul

[Dave MacLachlan]

GD ran the spotlight plugins itself to extract data. 

You could probably do something similar yourself.

Cheers,

Dave

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:02, Paul <paul....@gmail.com> wrote:

Dave - I'm more organized than that! I can narrow down the number of files to grep through. But what intelligently extracts text from, e.g., pdf, html, etc.? Google Desktop's index was mighty handy and fast. Thank you for responding. - Paul