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
