Quicksilver goes Open Source

Long time readers know that we at TUAW love Quicksilver, the brilliant keyboard launcher application from Blacktree. Now after previously making promises to that effect, the developer (who likes to go by Alcor) has released the source for Quicksilver as a Google Code project. While Quicksilver has always had a highly extensible plugin system, this is great news for the code monkeys out there who can now really dig into the application. Mere moral users like myself can hope, however, that more eyes and brains working on the application will lead to more stability and faster development. A big TUAW 'attaboy to Alcor for taking this step!

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

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Source: http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-alchemy/

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macjason0607

This is the best news that i have heard ... i have been using quicksilver for about 4 months and whenever it crashes or anything i feel naked without it ... more plugins the better

Thanks

November 07 2007 at 12:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

@Mat: thanks for the link policy change! TO be honest, I didn't think it would get this kind of response. :)

November 07 2007 at 9:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave

Carl: I agree. I did the same thing. Spotlight does the job now.

November 07 2007 at 3:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian

A big TUAW 'attaboy to Matt for taking this linking step!
TX!

November 06 2007 at 10:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

XIV

I don't even know what to download and where to start so I can check the source code out and learn how it was made. I'm really bad.

Anybody can help me out ?

November 06 2007 at 7:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Johan

I can't help but fear that this is Alcor dropping the project in the hope that someone else will take it up. Development of QS has been extremely slow in the past year, and a large number of issues have been left unadressed for even longer than that. The recent issues with blacktree.com being down for two weeks is really just icing on the cake.

I wouldn't be surprised to see an announcement in the near future.

November 06 2007 at 7:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Carlos

Is there any way of building it using XCode 2.4.1 in Tiger?

When i'm trying to compile it, says:

error: There is no SDK at specified SDKROOT path '/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk'

Thanks in advance

November 06 2007 at 5:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

superpixel

Actually we have had a policy since day 1 of linking on the Read link directly to what we are blogging about. This has never changed. So, if you try the Read link, you'll find it goes to the project page...

Categories are what you see in our list to the right-- Cult of Mac, Security, etc.

Tags are based on folksonomies, or things that might change or keywords that might only be relevant to a few posts (like Oracle, or Microsoft).

November 06 2007 at 4:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

richard

@Mat Lu: Thank you, linking to different places is what www is all about.

November 06 2007 at 3:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Wow, cool that TUAW just like that decided to change the policy for App names.

I was going to suggest a compromise, that the links still go to the site's article search function, but that a link to the product home page is inserted above the search results.

It turns one click into two for the users -- which isn't so bad -- and still gives Weblogs, Inc. the ability to promote their story archive.

Anyway, moot now, I guess.

November 06 2007 at 3:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply