Quelles sont les alternatives à Quicksilver?

Question

Je suis un grand fan de QuickSilver , et j'utilisait depuis plusieurs années déjà. Mais le développement de l'application semble avoir stagné pendant un certain temps, et de nombreux bugs (surtout avec des plugins et des fonctionnalités avancées) ont jamais été fixé. Je me suis alors déplacé à QSB , qui semblait être là où les efforts étaient concentrés pour produire une telle application . Mais là encore, le développement semble s'être arrêté et plusieurs fonctionnalités que je manque encore (comme le lancement AppleScript) ont jamais été correctement mis en œuvre.

Je suis au courant de quelques solutions de rechange là-bas, notamment AlfredApp et LaunchBar , mais je voulais demander ici votre avis et des recommandations avant de les essayer.

Ma question est, à partir d'aujourd'hui, qui serait le meilleur remplacement pour QuickSilver ? Idéalement je voudrais soutenir les caractéristiques suivantes:

• Lancement des applications, des panneaux de préférence et les scripts de pomme.
• recherche sur le Web et la recherche dans les signets de mon navigateur préféré.
• Capable d'effectuer des actions ou des opérations sur les fichiers (copier, déplacer, dans le Finder).
• recherches sur le Web personnalisés sont un plus. Je voudrais l'amour si elle pouvait index, par exemple, mes délicieux signets.
• Gratuit. Open source est un plus.
• Certaines infrastructures de plug-in.
• Une communauté saine des développeurs pour maintenir activement l'application.
• Pas trop de bugs.

Dans votre réponse, s'il vous plaît ne laissez-moi savoir sur les caractéristiques de votre application proposée, et note s'il y a des éléments manquants de mon choix « liste de souhaits ».

Answer 1

Alfred is the one that meets pretty much all your needs.

• Launching applications, preference panels and apple scripts.
• Web search, and search within bookmarks of my favorite browser.
• Able to perform actions or operations on files (copy, move, reveal in Finder). paid version only
• Custom web searches.
• Free.
• Plugin infrastructure.
• A healthy community of developers actively maintaining the application.
• Not too many bugs

Answer 2

In my experience, LaunchBar (which I'm using now) has been the best replacement for QuickSilver. Right after the switch (I used QS too), I missed a few things here and there and had to adjust to others. Truth is, Launchbar ends up being a perfect replacement for most tasks. Perhaps not as "open" as quicksilver but very mature and stable.

Alfred (which is newer) is ok and it delivers (been using it for a couple of weeks). It lacks certain things (I didn't have the powerpack). Clearly the power pack brings it to the level of LB.

Pros of LB? It's stable, been working for years and it delivers. Relatively easy to configure and expand (e.g.: to add a search and/or modify the catalog). Cons of LB? Development is not what you'd call a fast thing. Other than the ocasional bug-fix, the program hasn't really been updated in a few months. No new features in more than a year. Not that it really "needs" more, but… new ideas would be welcomed too. It's also not free.

Pros of Alfred? It's free for basic stuff, works ok and has a nice community. You can change more things and it's more prone to be configurable in the future. Some actions are better implemented than LB. Can't recall now an example but I remember smiling at certain details.

Cons of Alfred? If the features you want are not in the free package, you will have to pay. Has less features than LB at the moment and is somewhat slower in certain things. Some things you cannot do and I believe LB has better "file" management. But it's probably because I'm used to it.

Of course, if you want Free… you don't have much choice.

Answer 3

Despite a period where it looked like the program would languish, Quicksilver is very much alive and being developed in 2013.

I'd propose an alternative to the Quicksilver from 2011 to be Quicksilver now at http://qsapp.com

The open source development is quite active and most of the big problems have been fixed. In fact, it works so well that the developers have finally released the 1.0 version. You can even participate in the development as the code base is hosted on GitHub - Quicksilver.

Answer 4

I'm also a fan of Quicksilver, and having tried LB and Alfred, I'd say that Alfred feels more "quicksilver-ish" so it was easier for me to understand.

For whatever it's worth, Quicksilver has been open-sourced, and some work is still being done on it, although it's not as active as it once was. It runs fine under Lion.