Well, ultimately a fully general system would be nice. I don't expect this to be implemented any time soon, but what about:
1. A new "types" tab, allowing users to define regular expressions to match a piece of text that give it a "type" the way email addresses, URLs, and calculator strings have now. 2. A "services/unknown" pseudo-type in the actions tab, for actions where QS doesn't know what type they apply to (and assumes text). Then from that area only, allow dragging of actions to the existing type headers on the side. Horrible mockup...attached?...uh, what's the etiquette for posting images here? Well, here's a link to it, anyway: http://i.imgur.com/PFLx3.png I can totally see this being a _ton_ of work, and I don't know Obj-C, so I understand if it never happens. That's my 2¢ regarding the design of the feature, though. On Jun 25, 5:45 pm, Patrick Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately not. Quicksilver does not give telephone numbers a special > 'type', unlike calculator text (when you type "=" Quicksilver knows it's a > special type). > There's been discussion recently of adding a telephone type, which could > give different actions for telephone numbers. > Unfortunately, the next problem is that most telephone actions are services > so not all users would have all the services on their computer — making it > difficult to decide on what action should be default for telephone numbers. > > This is certainly an interesting area, and it would be great if Quicksilver > could be a bit cleverer about understanding text, so if you or anyone has > any ideas that'd be awesome! > > On 26 June 2011 01:14, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have phone service with a spare set of SIP credentials, which I've > > set up in the app Telephone so I can call from my computer. I recently > > discovered that Telephone has a "call" service, which QS picks up and > > recognizes as an action. However, I'd rather not replace "large type" > > as the default for text. Is there any way to get QS to behave the way > > it does for the calculator plugin, or URLs, where only certain text > > strings trigger particular actions?
