Hi Howard, thanks for your quick reply. As you surely noticed, i have(sometimes) not so much patience, especially when dealing with a program that´s worth sticking to. Of course QS is such a program. I also have your pdf already, even read in it, but since i use QS for a few hours (i briefly tested it a few years ago, but wasn´t ready for it back then, as a very new Mac user) i couldn´t read & understand it that quick. :)
I also had that music folder in the catalog, with indefinite depth & expected it to index the MP3s, which not happened yet. But i understand your explanations how to alternatively browse into folders, via arrows or the iTunes plugin. This works nicely so far. Still it would be nice to just use QS as a searching tool, which is capable of replacing spot light or others. If i know, song xyz is in a certain folder it ´s quite easy to browse there, but i´m rather talking about the case where i don´t know where it is (that would be a plain search) or would like to have all files of a given format searched. Anyway, after using QS a couple of hours i already found out some very handy things, which i already searched for since longer time, like being able to make hotkeys for applications. Which also was a bit weird in the beginning, is the "fuzzy" search, but i already get used to it. Anyway, this new program is in fact great, sorry for having sounded a bit harsh. With the icon, yeah, it would be nice if this would get fixed in some future version, because it isn´t actually needed in the dock. Btw, i like the graphics with QS, all that fading in & out stuff greetings from Hamburg, Germany Andreas Howard Melman schrieb: > Quicksilver is easy to use, but it is unfortunately not intuitive. > It's one of the reasons I decided to write a manual for it. Having > 100 different plugins means it is configurable in many different ways, > but it also means that there is a lot to know. The manual hopefully > will help you. I tried to include everything but also to explain how > things work so you can learn to explore on your own. > http://mysite.verizon.net/hmelman/Quicksilver.pdf > > No you don't have to enter everything individually. The catalog > allows you to configure "sources" that are scanned to populate the > catalog. One source is look in the ~/Documents folder and find all > the files in it and and 1 level down. This is the default to avoid > having too large a catalog but it also throws people off that not all > their documents are indexed. To be more counter-intuitive, this > default source can't be modified, but it can be cloned and you can > change the depth search of the clone. Instructions for this are in > the catalog section of the manual (including screenshots which I think > really helps explain things). > > In addition to the catalog (the index of things) you can also use QS > to navigate to any file. If you type ~ it will go to your home folder > and then typing → or / will go down a level where you can type the > name of a subfolder and then type → or / to go into that and down to > any file. This is an alternative to having to have everything in the > catalog which would slow QS down. > > As for music files, the way to get to them is to install the iTunes > plugin. This makes playlists available in the catalog but not > individual tracks. You can get to them by navigating by genre, artist, > albums, etc. Again it's easier than it sounds and there are > instructions with screenshots in the manual. > > Some of the tutorials on this page might be helpful too, though some > are based on very old versions of Quicksilver. > http://docs.blacktree.com/quicksilver/tutorials?DokuWiki=970ffb5260de891bf765937511c1c056 > > The dock icon issue is a common complaint and I'm not sure if it's > just flakey or an actual bug. > > It took me about a week of using quicksilver before I really started > to get it. And now I'd be lost without it. It's unfortunate that it's > not intuitively obvious on first use, but not everything is. Hopefully > future versions will be better at this. > > Howard
