Quicksilver goes open source with Leopard release

Speaking of the Google video - if, like me, Quicksilver's charms have thus far eluded you, WATCH THIS VIDEO. It's worth the time I FINALLY have a grip on what the thing's about, even if I don't think I'll use it.

In Alcor's address to google on quicksilver (found at 43 folders and Googlevideo), he is demo-ing quicksilver on leopard, so I doubt the release will take long.

Yeah! That's super cool news. This program is so good, ... it has to be open source :-).

Oh and i forgot: Shame on those Apps that don’t yet have Quicksilver Plugins.

I personally like launchbar,

Remember SuperClock? I bet a few people here do. In System 6 SuperClock was a CDEV (Control Panel for you newbies) which did one very simple thing: it put a clock in the Menu Bar. That's it. It was staggeringly popular, and so Apple bought it and integrated it into the system. It was so simple and so obviously needed and so popular that it made SENSE for Apple to buy it and integrate it into the system.

Quicksilver is no SuperClock. There's no question that it's popular (either that or it's got a small but very vocal user base), but it's neither as simple nor as obvious as SuperClock was. It doesn't make any sense for Apple to buy and integrate it. And even if they did, what makes you think they wouldn't gut it to make it easier and more accessible to novice users?

It's better off as it is - an optional add-on. It'll be even better if it does go open source.

I don't think Apple would add QS to OS X because they like to keep things simple. Heck, that is why so many people love Macs. QS is the tool of geeks (myself included). I'm an absolute QS junkie and have even posted screencasts on it at www.macsparky.com

Sorry. I edited the thread slightly to clarify my position. Check the last post in the thread.

I'm confused. The linked thread doesn't say anything about QS going open source. One user says he prefers using open source software, but Alcor's response is essentially this: "I wouldn't get too excited. There certainly will be a small bug fix release for Leopard, but I can't really offer any good estimates on when or if anything more will be released."

That hardly amounts to an announcement of "going open source". Or is there another thread where this was actually discussed?

This is great. Quicksilver was one of the reasons to get a Mac. Why didn’t Apple buy it and make it part of Leopard? Cheapskates.

@#2: So you have to indexes, but that doesn’t hurt anybody. I like that.