I've thought long and hard about it, and my thoughts at the moment are: I'm gonna try and keep QS going as long as I can (hopefully with the help of the other few who've worked on QS in the past few months - it's seemed to work pretty well).
I've been watching QSB closely, and was thinking that I'd try and help maintain QS until QSB overtakes it. Alfred doesn't really look that good to me - just an app launcher. As selfish as it may sound, I'm probably going to try and keep QS updated and working for me. As everyone knows with QS - YMMV, and if it doesn't work 100% for other people I don't think I'm gonna be able to have the time to help out too much (it's time more than anything. There's plenty of QS <3) So all in all - I hope to use QS indefinitely until something better turns up, or Apple decide to do a major rewrite of Mac OS (e.g. move to a DOS system or something... :P) On 7 June 2010 23:53, sclough <[email protected]> wrote: > First, I want to offer a great big thanks to those who have kept > Quicksilver alive and well on SL and even improving the speed in the > process. I'm not a dev, but I greatly appreciate it. Those thanks > being offered, I wondered if there was any sort of roadmap or future > plans for QS. QSB seemed to be the successor of sorts, but it seems > like development and activity on QSB is stalled somewhat, though > several people use it. Alfred is getting some momentum, but it doesn't > show any signs of incorporating near the functionality that QS can > offer but seems focused around just search. Launchbar is fast, stable, > and has a lot of functionality though it is awkward to use in my > opinion when compared with QS. > > All that leads me to wonder if QS has a long term future. I'm not > trying to be negative, I'm just wondering what's in the heads of the > developers or if anyone is putting any thought into QS's long term > future. Obviously a lot of the plugins are aging though the majority > still work well, and I wonder if QS will keep up with other solutions > in the long term. > > Again, this is a post for curiousity's sake for someone that is very > grateful for the work that has been done. I'm just wondering if I need > to prepare my mind that this brilliant piece of software that I still > depend on every day won't be around forever :^)...
