Jul 07 2006

Quicksilver’s new Cube UI (hidden preferences ahoy!)

Quicksilver. Pimped.

So before I give you the magical magic fairy dust to make your Quicksilver cube interface as pretty as mine, admit the pimping-​ness of this new interface. It’s hot. You want it. Nick has done a bloody marvellous job with this (this is coming from the sole user of the “mini” interface — yes, I’ve been told I was possibly the only person using it).

You’ll need the Cube interface installed first.

Now: Pimp your Quicksilver. Trackback your pimped rides, bitches (my pimpspeak is not strong).

Comments

Gravatar for Stephen Caudill.

Bril­liant! I've been using the “Primer” inter­face for QS for ages now, so this is a refressh­ing change. How'd you find the hid­dne pref­pane, any­how? Took me a sec­ond to fig­ure out how to make the back­ground trans­par­ent like you've got it (duh, set the trans­parency slider on either/​both of the back­ground color boxes), but I'm lov­ing this inter­face. Here's how it looks on my system:

<http://​www​.exdolo​.com/​2​0​0​6​/​7​/​7​/​n​e​w​-​q​u​i​c​k​s​i​l​v​er-ui>

BTW, thanks for VirtueDesk­tops, Tony! QS and Virtue are a big part of what make my days pass happilly.

Posted by Stephen Caudill on

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Very Nice– it&apos;s about time there way a pretty inter­face that doesn&apos;t use as much space for the com­mand. Just a few options please:

  1. Optional get rid of AUTO-​CAPS (some of us use that to change commands!)
  2. Fade from a lighter shadow (the cur­rent one starts at totally opaque)
  3. Col­ors?
  4. Shadow to fol­low cube rota­tion (not really needed)
  5. Scroll through options via up and down keys: Rotates cube ver­ti­cally. Shift-​Up or Shift-​Down reverts to a bor­ing use­less list. (This helps many of us who get two com­mon hits)

Beau­ti­ful Work, Ed Palma

Posted by Ed Palma on

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Clar­i­fi­ca­tion:
Shadow is a ref­er­ence to the shadow on the cube.
Colors…oops– text colors?

Likin it, Ed

Posted by Ed Palma on

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Ed, this isn&apos;t my work — Nick Jitkoff (the author of Quick­sil­ver) made this UI, so you should direct your sug­ges­tions to the offi­cial forums @ <http://​black​tree​.cocoaforge​.com/​f​o​rums/>

Posted by Tony Arnold on

Gravatar for Don Parr.

Thanks so much for shar­ing this! Adds a much more aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing appear­ance to “my” cube :).

Posted by Don Parr on

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Wow! This is one of those things that makes my day!

Please tell: how did you find the pref pane for the Cube interface?

Posted by jcar­man on

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jcar­man, Nick showed me how to get to this pref­er­ence pane a cou­ple of weeks back.

Posted by Tony Arnold on

Gravatar for loreen.

I’m using mini, exclu­sively. So you weren’t the only one. The rea­son is, obvi­ously, its mini, its small and doesn’t cover my screen. Albeit this “pimped” cube looks styl­ish, I keep the old one.

Posted by loreen on

Gravatar for Joanie.

I am apply­ing the shadow but noth­ing is appear­ing, How do you get that amaz­ing glow? Thanks

Posted by Joanie on

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