Comments on: Re-Installing Quicksilver

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:35:10 +0000

I started off with Quicksilver but switched to LaunchBar a couple years ago and never went back to QS. For me, LaunchBar is easier to use, simpler, cleaner, and more elegant. It’s also more stable, which is more important to me than QS’s extra features. But, to each his own.

For the record, LaunchBar *does* support appending text. I imagine timers could be added with AppleScript, or maybe the Unix at utility. It’s just a matter of someone sitting down to write it. And there’s been some talk about a shelf-like feature being added in a future version.

So the feature difference is getting smaller all the time.

By: darren rolfe

darren rolfe — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:48:35 +0000

You wandered from the path, but you finally saw the light!

Welcome back!

By: kennon

kennon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:06:29 +0000

I should clarify that I’m speaking strictly as an app launcher.

By: kennon

kennon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:05:11 +0000

I’ve found that spotlight, in Leopard, is just as good as quicksilver. That’s for me, anyways. I think QS has a great many features but spotlight is a great free alternative if you already own leopard. One less thing to install.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:33:48 +0000

Likewise, I tried Launchbar and quickly reverted to QS. So ingrained has it become, that I have an involuntary “what the …” moment whenever I sit at a friend or family member’s Mac and instinctively start off with a Command-Spacebar.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:37:28 +0000

Welcome back to QS…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:44:39 +0000

I gave LaunchBar a similar trial, and ended up with the same result as you. Quicksilver just has a few too many better features and I like its implementation more than Launchbar - especially when working with files.

I just wish there were a more stable version of Quicksilver available because it’s pretty crashy on Leopard.