On May 31, 8:13 pm, NovaScotian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it has a learning curve and Apple doesn't like learning curves. Is > there no hope that some member of the consortium of developers that > worked with Alcor has any ambition to continue? Is QS really going to > remain dead in the water?
It really surprises me that no one has stepped up. QS has one of the most dedicated and fanatical userbases (steadily eroding) of any Mac software, and is one of the most brilliant thought out interfaces ever on any platform (talked about enviously by Windows and *nix users alike). It has been opensourced and sits in a repository for someone to hack on. Many of us are willing to give *very* generously to a tip jar, and thus there is a financial incentive that is probably greater than many other opensource projects combined (though there are some ethical issues involved there). I think devs don't touch it because it is considered a dead branch with Alcor working on a new core (i.e. they don't want to step on his shoes). However that work is stalled (no activity in Google code for months), and thus the whole endeavour is frozen in stasis. No one wants to waste time on a dead branch, and yet the new tree is frozen in its growth. We have to be grateful to alcor (and the legion of QS users who contributed to its development, and people like Howard for his amazing documentation). It is really sad to see such energy slowly dissipate away, leaving us with broken brilliance. My only hope is that another young gun takes the ideas contained within quicksilver, along with new ideas and amkes something even better. Alternatively Google gives Alcor a 6 month sabbatical for the good of OS X and makes QS II part of its stable of tools.
