Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Quicksilver--What happened to it?

Watabou

Watabou

macrumors 68040
Original poster
Feb 10, 2008
3,426
759
United States
Quicksilver is my most used app on my macbook pro. But I'm amazed its still in beta. Is it dead or something? There are tons of bugs and it keeps crashing :(

So what's the news?
 
While it was an amazing app, one of the best I have ever seen, you can do almost the same thing with built in OS X features now.

But yes, it was discontinued, and now open-source I believe.
 
NeoMayhem said:
While it was an amazing app, one of the best I have ever seen, you can do almost the same thing with built in OS X features now.
No, you can't. I can't move a folder with three to five keyboard presses. I can find files with that speed as quicksilver. Spotlight is powerful but quicksilver is just more powerful. That's all.

But yes, it was discontinued, and now open-source I believe.
Click to expand...

Aww man. That sucks :(
 
You can do the same, but you can't do it with the same UI, can you? I haven't found anything built in to OS X that can act like an app launcher, unless you're referring to Spotlight.
 
NeoMayhem said:
While it was an amazing app, one of the best I have ever seen, you can do almost the same thing with built in OS X features now.
Click to expand...

Sorry, but that's just wrong. Quicksilver is a hugely powerful application quite unlike anything else on your Mac. There is nothing else that comes close to it, even when you bundle several applications together. Application launching is just one small part of what QS can do.

To the O.P., it can be a little buggy. Do you have a lot of plugins installed? Did you get the official blacktree version? Are you getting final releases or prerelease candidates?
 
NeoMayhem said:
While it was an amazing app, one of the best I have ever seen, you can do almost the same thing with built in OS X features now.
Click to expand...

I used to agree with this statement, but after using it for several months now, it is much more than an app launcher, and its one of the most handy mac apps i have.
 
concur

I agree also, it is an amazing app! just wish they brought it back to life. ahh, Does anyone know of any other quicksilver-like apps? an application launcher that does more than an application launcher?
 
QS was using 100% CPU on startup, so I had to stop using it. It's a shame, but at least Spotlight is fast enough on this new MBP!
 
Anyone who believes the guy that says that Mac OS X can do anything that Quicksilver can do is making an error of judgement that is approximately as large, and world-consequent, as having believed G.W. when he said that Saddam Hussein had WMD's in 2003.
 
lopoz said:
Ankur (don't know if he's one of the original dev's) is cleaning up the source and fixing bugs, according to his website..

http://lipidity.com/
Click to expand...

Thanks a bunch! According to some comments, he's still working on it, and has some code up on Google code projects and should be finishing cleaning it up soon!

Whoo!
 
Coolnat2004 said:
QS was using 100% CPU on startup, so I had to stop using it. It's a shame, but at least Spotlight is fast enough on this new MBP!
Click to expand...

never reached such a high cpu usage but it did go up if the catalog for quicksilver to index was too big
 
quicksilver problems - mouse triggers

anybody have the problem where mouse triggers only works once and then doesn't work until you go into the triggers menu and click the trigger? :confused: i like the trigger cause it's like using expose times five.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back