Kyle D. Skrinak

I made the switch about a month ago; from QuickSilver to Google Quick Search Box. I did so when I read that QuickSilver’s developer had dropped the project but resurrected it as an apparently re-factored project over at Google. Except for the “Google-In-Your-FACE” UI, it’s the same great utility that QS was, only now it’s maintained, and some new goodness added. Check it out.

One big change (for a small utility) is the way it handles typing your command. QS would “forget” if you paused for, roughly 4 seconds. GQS doesn’t forget, in the same way gnome-do doesn’t forget. It felt clumsy at first, but after the “what will QS ‘guess’ I’m trying to type” coolness factor dies down, I find I prefer the memory permanence. Sometimes eye-candy can slow down pragmatism.