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ATTENTION: Quicksilver Needs Your Help

theappleblog.com — Please digg this up to help Quicksilver gain the developer support it needs to stay alive! Alcor has doomed it to a "long slow death," help see that this doesn't happen!

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 8, 2007

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  • sockpuppets, on 12/08/2007, -3/+255Quick, to the Diggmobile!
  • ploke, on 12/08/2007, -2/+69http://lipidity.com/apple/cleaning-up-quicksilver/
  • inactive, on 12/08/2007, -1/+57I think you mean to call it the Dock. When you said "the Launcher," you took me back one decade to System 7.5.
  • skyshock1, on 12/08/2007, -10/+53I REALLY wish Apple would pick up development of QS and use it instead of the launcher. The laucher is the crappiest UI component of OSX and basically just gets in the way. It robs screen space, is nowhere NEAR as powerful as QS, and uses pointless animations to eat system resources.

    I have mine auto-hidden, but I really wish I could kill it off entirely.
  • apolloae, on 12/08/2007, -14/+51ATTENTION: You don't need to put ATTENTION in your titles.
  • KnightMareInc, on 12/08/2007, -13/+46the mutant from the x-men needs my help?
  • rootadmen, on 12/08/2007, -1/+31I guess I'm just going to have to crack open my Obj-C once again
    I'll never let QS die
  • Errdoth, on 12/08/2007, -8/+38I thought this was talking about the clothing company :
    Shows my mac-savvy-ness
  • sclifford, on 12/08/2007, -1/+30The fact that it's OSS now will keep it in the mix. I absolutely love QuickSilver and use it primarily as an application launcher, though it has tons of utility beyond that.
  • inactive, on 12/08/2007, -1/+26yeah QS would be so easy for my dad to pick up.......
  • voyvf, on 12/08/2007, -3/+26Yeah, I see that Linux has died within a few years of being released open source. Yup, how dead it is.

    /sarcasm
  • Tippis, on 12/08/2007, -2/+24If all you're using QS for is the search and launch, then maybe.
    If you've ever gotten into everything else QS does, Spotlight still looks completely impotent by comparison.
  • webcrumb, on 12/08/2007, -7/+26The surfers clothing company needs my help?

    -c
  • mrjit, on 12/08/2007, -1/+18Thats Quiksilver
  • digitalpencil, on 12/08/2007, -0/+17Leopard isn't, spotlight, however is!
  • dwbell, on 12/08/2007, -1/+17No this is what happens when you give software away for free and don't let others contribute. The only dev is bound to burn out. Now that QS is OSS it is going to grow and improve faster than ever.
  • dwbell, on 12/08/2007, -0/+11If a buisness wants to use FLOSS with a warranty/accountability they can purchase warranty and support from many vendors. Red Hat , Novell , Canotical, Linspire etc.

    It seems to me that many companies are doing just fine with Open Source. IBM Google and Paypal come to mind immediatly.
  • dougmwpsu, on 12/08/2007, -1/+12I don't really understand what all the doom and gloom is about with this blog wine. since QS is now open source as of November, there's no reason that an app with a strong user base won't continue to be independently developed. infact, Alcor letting the app go is probably the best thing that could have happened; it's only a shame he didn't do it sooner.
  • phogasmic, on 12/09/2007, -0/+11I use Spotlight to open Quicksilver after it crashes.
  • onanobj, on 08/07/2008, -0/+10If you really don't ever use the dock then just remove everything but Finder, Quicksilver, and Trash from it. Make the dock as small as possible, set it to auto-hide, and turn off magnification and other animations. You'll never see it again.

    I prefer typing to mousing and almost never use my dock anymore since I installed Quicksilver. You're out of your mind though if you think the average user is interested in hitting some key combination and typing the name of the app they want, rather than just pointing to an icon and clicking.
  • BrienD, on 12/08/2007, -2/+12Did anyone else read this and think of the old Captain America & the Avengers game?
    "THANK YOU, QUICKSILVER!"
    "AMERICA STILL NEEDS YOUR HELP!"
  • Tippis, on 12/08/2007, -0/+10Plugins
    Program control
    Service browsing
    In- and output stream processing
    Complex triggers

    The search/launch part of QS is just a minuscule part of the range of things it can do.
  • akatsuki, on 12/08/2007, -0/+9Basically the main developer is backing off of it and some people have picked it up, but many apps die at this stage because of lack of long term commitment. So yes, it is something to worry about, especially for such a beloved app. Sadly sometimes open source ends up being the kiss of death, whereas if he charged for it, he would be able to justify the time spent on it and perhaps devote working time to it.
  • rootadmen, on 12/08/2007, -0/+9That goes completely against to point of QS.
    use launchy or google desktop
  • directive0, on 12/08/2007, -4/+12No matter what you call it, he's right. The dock has long since been dead to me after using QS. Infact, on one of the older machines in my office the finder refused to boot for a couple months. Usually this would be a major problem, but the computer is still fully functional thanks to QS! Apple: Buy this guy out and use this software, its amazingly powerful!
  • inactive, on 12/08/2007, -0/+8lipidity is pretty awesome! Good luck!
  • leprix, on 12/08/2007, -0/+8"now" there's spotlight? been around for a while...
  • defylogik, on 12/08/2007, -0/+8this is one mac program i use everyday. i would PAY for it. crazy i know!
  • maexus, on 12/08/2007, -0/+8This... has to be the stupidest comment I've read on Digg today.
  • thenumber8, on 12/08/2007, -0/+8In Leopard they added quick-launching capabilities to Spotlight (start typing an app and then press return as opposed to having to tab down to launch the app, and apps appear faster in the Spotlight search now) however, Spotlight still does not have near the system-wide usability that Quicksilver has. Quicksilver has become much much more than an application launcher. Admittedly there is a slight learning curve, but it is still an application that many of us survive on and use daily for everything from launching apps, moving files, using the Shelf, even writing emails and changing Facebook status (google moodswing).
  • Xuis, on 12/08/2007, -1/+8Quicksilver is probably the most influential program that I have ever used on any of my computers, it NEEDS to stay alive because it can produce so much more innovation in the computing world as a whole. I hope never to see the dream of it's developers die.
  • thenumber8, on 12/08/2007, -0/+6the newest build of quicksilver no longer leaves an icon in the dock, though some parts of it still dont work just right (Shelf and Clipboard are kinda buggy) but it is definitely usable and more complete than Spotlight
  • TheRealToma, on 12/09/2007, -1/+7I took a look at your other comments on digg. You seem like a real jerk. Blocked.
  • MadOtaku, on 12/08/2007, -9/+15I've been a quicksilver fan since about late '04 . But Leopard's spotlight was good enough to make me give up QS.
  • muniak, on 12/08/2007, -2/+8Except that with some you can pay for support(or you know do a little work and look on the forums for some). Like Ubuntu for instance?!
  • Wuffles, on 12/08/2007, -3/+9Who the hell is digging this guy down? He's asking a genuine question! I have no idea what Quicksilver is either. And it doesn't exactly explain what it is in the article either.
  • vwgtiturbo, on 12/08/2007, -1/+6And I am so glad to hear someone say it... I can't program, and I don't have the memory to learn how, so it is great seeing those that have the ability stepping up for the good of all!
  • UnterDenLinden, on 12/08/2007, -2/+7A fast metal needs my help?
    hmm..I killed it....
  • maexus, on 12/08/2007, -0/+5Spotlight is used for search. QS is much more than just a launcher or a search. If that's what you use it for, by all means continue to use spotlight.
  • ocellnuri, on 12/08/2007, -2/+7I'd love to see Apple pull a Coverflow, and pull the plugin system and added functionality of Quicksilver into Spotlight, after writing a check.
  • Gudlyf, on 12/09/2007, -0/+5Mercury needs my help?
    /late to the game
  • ozroy, on 12/08/2007, -0/+4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5cnTxnDtEY
  • mmgrinberg, on 12/08/2007, -1/+5Quicksilver is something very important. Long live!
  • sdm011, on 12/08/2007, -2/+6http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321213149/ ...
  • SPRFRKR, on 12/08/2007, -1/+5Kevin Bacon needs my help?

    / too obscure?
  • shlos, on 12/08/2007, -7/+11what is quicksilver?

    sorry, i'm not computer savyy
  • yjsoon, on 12/09/2007, -0/+3i thought you were mistakenly referring to silverlight, then i read the rest of your comment and my brain exploded from confusion.
  • manitoba98xp, on 12/08/2007, -1/+4Exactly. I click on a file, hit a short cut, and a few more keys, and I've sent it via email to somebody.
  • frazw, on 12/09/2007, -0/+3How is it ignorance to express a desire?
  • jeranuon, on 12/09/2007, -0/+3I practically had it replacing 75% of my overall GUI interactions... It broke my heart every single time it crashed, though. I reckon it will take a tremendous effort just to make it really stable.
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