Comments on: Opinion: Quicksilver Versus the Dock

By: Daniel Gale Rosen

Daniel Gale Rosen — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:31:31 +0000

Hey guys, Glad to see you found the drawers! I was actually in the process of finding them again, since my original source for them seems to have disappeared. When I got them, there was an awesome blank drawer, which you could add whatever symbol to, which was really handy.

Here’s the source for the dock: http://www.jackrebel.com/wooden-class-dock-for-your-mac/ I think. It’s been a while since I changed it, but I think this is where I got it.

By: mark

mark — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:27:20 +0000

Here’s a tip for the stack drawers, linked above:

I needed some specific emblems that weren’t included in that set, but I discovered something really cool: If you use the drawers that have the “handle” opening, they’ll display — through the hole — whatever’s beneath them. So, by following a “handle drawer” with a plain, *colored* drawer (in the same folder), you get just enough extra color to make it unique.

I used the wood folders with handles, then added a splash of color to each, in this manner. of course, you can use any combination of colors you like. (note: you’ll need to add a 2nd space to the beginning of the handle drawer’s name, to force it to the top of the list.)

By: mark

mark — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:50:07 +0000

I found the drawers: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=864H43UV

By: felipe barcellos

felipe barcellos — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:21:31 +0000

the developers now got a paid job at google he is the man behind GOOGLE QUICK SEARCH BOX.

I fact, this app is just a quicksilver on steroids and Google money. I`m trying and it`s almost as good as the old quickie.

http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-google-quick-search-box.html

By: y-guy

y-guy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:19:19 +0000

I read on MacUpdate somebody said the new version worked with Snow Leopard, so perhaps the update will solve the problems with the APIs

I’ll add the third voice to the chorus… like the source to the Dock Drawers too.

By: mark

mark — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:10:51 +0000

How about the source of those stack icons???

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:23:53 +0000

Where is that dock from? It is sexy.

By: Daniel Gale Rosen

Daniel Gale Rosen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:47:54 +0000

Hey Alex, I was actually wondering if someone would ask that! It’s an icon set for Adium, the chat program. I have about ten different sets, but I’ve stuck with that one for a long time now.

As for QS v. Spotlight, I find that QS still overpowers spotlight in that, as Tim said, QS can have more specialised triggers. You don’t have to type something exactly to find it, whereas if you skip a letter or make a typo in Spotlight, then you’re sunk.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:36:58 +0000

Quicksilver is a must-have for me. But it is a power-user app. The average user likes to point and click. However, for those who like to get things done quickly without having to reach for the mouse, Quicksilver is wonderful. I use it a lot for many things other than just launching apps:

- open URLs
- browse directories
- open/move/copy/trash files
- reveal apps
- resize images
- perform system commands (shutdown, restart, fast user switch–with a single keystroke)

And more.

Also, one BIG difference between Spotlight and QS or other launchers like it is that Spotlight never learns from your picks. And you can’t set a key to perform an action. For instance, I can train SQ to to launch Photoshop when it is often the choice I select from the matches in the list, or I can even set ‘ps’ to always select Photoshop. You can’t do that with Spotlight.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:16:12 +0000

Not to get too far off topic, but where did you get that awesome totoro icon, and what are you using it for?

Like you, I mainly keep my dock around for the art of it, and a quick glance to see if I left something running that I didn’t intend to. I haven’t used quicksilver since Tiger, though. The speed improvements in spotlight have filled all my launching needs without needing to run any other program. I still move things around with finder.

By: Vik89

Vik89 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:23:20 +0000

OMG I didn’t know that thing… it’s the end of the world for me… not kidding :O

By: Khoi Vinh

Khoi Vinh — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:18:02 +0000

I use Quicksilver every day and many, many times a day. But I’m not sure I would evangelize its adoption right now. From what I understand, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard breaks Quicksilver. And because of the way Quicksilver relies on private APIs — the unauthorized way — that have been changed in 10.6, it won’t be easy to fix it, if possible at all, since Quicksilver’s author is no longer actively developing it. That’s really depressing for me. Hopefully the community at large will engineer a fix.

By: Vik89

Vik89 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:51:59 +0000

Just to be honest… you can empty the trash simply writing “empty trash” in quicksilver, maybe you have to activate it through its settings, aaand.. you can select a file in quicksilver without browsing through all the folders, simply clicking the file with the mouse, then activating the function “Command window with selection” in the triggers, so that you can quickly move the file to a folder, open it with a particular software or anything you need… I’m a “power user” of quicksilver and find it really really useful

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:59:22 +0000

I used to use quicksilver but never really used the advanced functions of it. For launching programs, spotlight can do that. Recently, I am using google desktop from the developer of quicksilver and found that it can be faster than spotlight at finding files and launching programs. For controlling itunes I use gimmesometune. The biggest reason I stopped using quicksilver is that they just didn’t update. Did the open source community pick it up?