Actually, it would be better to post each question individually. That way, people can follow each topic independently, find them again later, etc.
On Sunday, May 26, 2013 5:55:05 PM UTC-4, lloyd wrote: > > I saved up several questions/issues and I'm putting them all in one batch > post in case anyone can help me with them. Here goes: > > When the computer reboots, Quicksilver is launched twice, and appears > twice in the dock. It works fine after I quit one of the two instances. > > With quicksilver in the first pane and Open in the second pane, the > interface does not go away after I hit enter. (The animation occurs, but > the interface reappears afterwards. I can make it go away with the escape > key, or command-comma for options etc. This doesn't happen with other > actions for Quicksilver, like Get Info.) > > If I click on a folder on the desktop to open a finder window, then select > a file in that folder (in list view), then hit my hotkey for "select > current selection in command window", the QS interface opens but the parent > folder is in the first pane. Is this the correct behaviour? (I know I can > navigate down to the file I need using the arrows, but I would have > expected it to really give me the current selection in the first pane, > however deep in the file hierarchy). > > In the "Exclude types" field of the Source Options tab associated with an > entry in the custom catalog items, most filetypes I add get converted to > the long-form name of the filetype. For example, .otf becomes "TrueType > OpenType font". Some filetypes don't seem to be recognised as they don't > get their names changed: .pfm and .afm, for example, stay as they are after > being entered. Of course it doesn't matter how they appear in the list, but > these ones that aren't recognised don't actually get excluded as requested > and end up clogging up the catalog. > > Also in the catalog, I'd like to set the depth quite high in my (custom) > desktop source, but I'd like to exclude some folders. So I temporarily set > the depth to 1 to easily find the Desktop folders I want to exclude in the > Contents tab. I deselect the ones I don't want. Then I return to Source > Options and set the depth to 5. What I had hoped is that it would remember > which folders I deselected at depth 1 and not go into them for the catalog. > But it appears to forget any items had been deselected. > > Lastly a humble mention that if anyone with the requisite knowledge would > like to make a Thunderbird plugin, I for one would make good use of it and > be very grateful. > > Thanks to anyone contributing to the development of Quicksilver. After > almost a decade of using it just to find files and launch programs (which > was already a great help) I'm finally making proper use of it. After > selecting several photos in iPhoto, I sent them to the command pane, scaled > them 50%, zipped them up, and emailed them to a recipient, all in > Quicksilver without my hands leaving the keyboard. Doing the same with > Thunderbird would complete my joy. > > --Lloyd > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
