All of those are actions (which have side effects external to Quicksilver). Wouldn't you just be able to press enter if your actions have properly ordered preferences?
Maybe you're proposing something else, but I found it obvious that spacebar behaviour is about providing a convenience for UI interactions in Quicksilver. »Lucas Garron On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:01 PM, philostein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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<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 > -- 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
