I don't have Chrome, but I can confirm that the Open action continues to work as it always has when to switch between, e.g., Safari and Mail on OS X 10.9.
On Friday, January 24, 2014 9:23:10 AM UTC-5, Rob McBroom wrote: > > On 23 Jan 2014, at 22:40, Joel M. Guenther wrote: > > Previously, when I used a Trigger to send the Open command to switch to an > application that was already open, the application would Activate and its > frontmost window would receive Focus. I suspect this behavior was > essentially the same as the "shows the front window" option for "Reopening > the current application" in the Extras section of the Quicksilver > Preferences. > > I had always believed that setting controlled the behavior of the Open > action. Looking at the code, I see that’s not the case. In fact, I don’t > think that setting is ever used in practice. (It appears once in the code, > but that code seems to be unused.) > > Now that I am running Mavericks, using a Trigger to Open an application > that is already running brings all the windows for that application to the > front. This is functionally equivalent to using command-tab to switch to an > application, and this change in behavior has crippled my workflows. > > On my system (10.9.1), the Open action does what you want. It only brings > the focused window to the front. But to be sure, I tried it with Chrome > specifically and it’s bringing all windows forward. > > This sort of crap is typical of cross-platform applications where standard > OS X behavior is an afterthought at best. If you report the problem to > Google, just tell them that -[NSWorkspace openFile:@"/Applications/Google > Chrome.app"] is what triggers the undesired behavior. > > -- > Rob McBroom > http://www.skurfer.com/ > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
