Hi Jordan, this plugin is utterly brilliant, a thousand thanks. Would it be too much trouble to make a google code project for this - it would make it much easier to publicise than being buried in a thread here...
On Sep 4, 4:27 pm, Jordan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > Will do. Does anyone know how to get the arrow to appear to indicate > that an object has children? Looking at the Quicksilver source code, > the answer lies in the objectHasChildren method in QSObject.m, but I > have no idea what this method is actually doing. Etienne, any ideas? > > On Sep 4, 3:03 am, "Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)" > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Okay, after a few minutes of testing, this plugin has a lot of good > > functionality. Good work! > > > My suggestion is to add an action to show files with the selected tag > > in the command window. One can achieve the same thing by pressing → > > or / to drill down into the tag, but this is not necessarily as > > intuitive as a Show Tagged Files in Command Window action. Moreover, > > since the results list is not showing a right arrow icon next to tags, > > there is no visual clue to the reader that pressing → or / will do > > anything. The current action to show tagged files in Leap is not very > > useful if one does not have Leap installed, but a Show Tagged Files in > > Command Window would be. This proposed action should probably work > > along the lines of the Spotlight in Command action or any other action > > that returns results that should be displayed to the user, by > > reopening the command window with the results of the action in the > > first pane. > > > Nevertheless, this is a great plugin. I was thinking that I would soon > > have to learn Objective-C myself, just so I could write an OpenMeta > > plugin for QS, because not having one was becoming aggravating to me. > > Thank you for saving from that, and giving the community this great > > gift. > > > On Sep 4, 2:34 am, "Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)" > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That's great, I'll try it out! > > > > As an aside, rather than /usr/bin, the proper place for third party > > > binaries like the openmeta command line tool is /usr/local/bin. > > > > On Sep 3, 12:02 pm, Jordan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have developed a Snow Leopard-compatible plugin for Quicksilver that > > > > allows for file tagging using OpenMeta (http://code.google.com/p/ > > > > openmeta/). Features include: > > > > > -Add OpenMeta tags to selected files > > > > -Set OpenMeta tags for selected files > > > > -Remove OpenMeta tags from selected files > > > > -Show OpenMeta tags for selected files > > > > -Browse files containing a certain OpenMeta tag > > > > -Filter by multiple tags > > > > -Show files containing tags in Ironic Software's Leap > > > > > This should replace the current file tagging plugin, which apparently > > > > is broken on Snow Leopard. OpenMeta is being adopted as a system-wide, > > > > inter-application standard on the Mac, used by apps such as Ironic > > > > Software's Leap, Gravity Apps' Tags, and St. Clair Software's Default > > > > Folder X. For more information on OpenMeta and its benefits, > > > > seehttp://openmeta.googlecode.com/files/AboutOpenMeta.pdf > > > > > You can download the plugin here:http://files.me.com/jordanekay/lmm0fc > > > > > Please try out the plugin and its associated actions and see if you > > > > can find any bugs. Make sure you've installed the openmeta CLI tool > > > > in /usr/bin. If you do not have Leap installed, obviously the "Show > > > > File in Leap..." action will not work. If anyone can tell me how to > > > > add the Xcode project to the plugin repository, I will do that as > > > > well. > > > > > Tell me what you think!
