Also be aware as far as I know installing the services plug in on QS B56 a7 will break it big time. It quits on launch until you manually remove the services plugin.
Any news on a fix for this btw or is this a problem because there is no access to the services plugin source code to update it? On Jul 30, 2:52 am, "Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)" <[email protected]> wrote: > For the second problem, either install the Services menu plugin so > that you can use the Look Up in Dictionary service as an action in QS, > or save the following as an Applescript in ~/Library/Application > Support/Quicksilver/Actions (~ is the standard shorthand for your home > folder): > > using terms from application "Quicksilver" > on process text inputText > tell application "Finder" to ¬ > open location "dict:///" & inputText > end process text > end using terms from > > On Jul 29, 7:48 am, higgalls <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey, > > > I was going through a couple of brief walkthroughs for Quicksilver, > > and it is working great, except for 2 problems: > > > Firstly, some plugins seem to stall whilst installing. I have changed > > the permissions on the ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver > > folder so that everyone has full read/write permissions (couldn't see > > how to change ownership - it appears to be my username anyway) and it > > still isn't working - it was with installing the Firefox one, as well > > as a template one. > > > Secondly, one walkthrough talks about using Quicksilver to look up > > definitions or to do calculations. However, I cannot see those plugins > > and therefore cannot get them to work (so I press the full-stop > > button, then type a word, press tab, start to type DEFINE but it gives > > me a beep straight away, and I cannot find an action to do a > > definition). A
