This sounds good.

Also:

email address/Address Book entry(?) - Email Item (Send)…
iTunes track/playlist - Play
Chrome Tab - Reveal Tab in Chrome
text object - Large Type/Paste(?)
.zip file - decompress

Most of these rely on plugins, so I don't know how they'd be implemented.


On Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:23:30 AM UTC+9, Tony wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I think it would be really awesome if you could add another option for a 
> "smarter" search bar behavior to the preferences. A lot times i find myself 
> wishing i could combine all the other options instead of having to choose 
> between them. What i would suggest is for the behavior to be context 
> sensitive based on the current selection in the first pane.
>
> For example pressing the spacebar would perform the following actions in 
> order of priority:
>
> folders/files - navigate into folder or file (ie show apps recent 
> documents, txt files contents, etc..)
> search urls - jump to argument field 
> files - quickview for any file that you can't typically navigate into
>
> And here is Patrick's take on the workflow order which i think would work 
> very well:
>
>
>    - invalid search string, switch to text mode when space is pressed
>    - else, if you can right arrow into the object move down into it
>    - else if you can quick look the item, do that
>    - finally, go to the 3rd pane.
>
> Other definitions could be made if needed for other file types with the 
> default behavior being show contents and the options above should cover 
> most use cases.
>
> It might sound a little confusing on paper but coming for Launchbar which 
> has a similar behavior it actually feels *very *intuitive and definitely 
> subscribes to the quicksilver philosophy :) I also created a GH issue which 
> you can find below which also has some discussion:
>
> https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/issues/925
>
> Tony
>

-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
Quicksilver group. To post to this group, send email to 
[email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send 
email to [email protected]. For more options, 
visit this group at 
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en

Reply via email to