Quicksilver only detects folders name in English, not in System Language

[souladdon]

Hello. I'm trying quicksilver (i already used quicksilver before, but stopped using it when the development stopped) and when i installed it today, i noticed a little bug:

I'm portuguese, so my Document folder is called "Documentos", my Pictures folder is called "Imagens", my "System Preferences" is called "Preferências do Sistema".
When i type for example "Preferências" to open the system preferences, quicksilver doesn't detect it, only if i search for "system preferences", and the same applies to all the system folders and other applications (like activity monitor etc).
Quicksilver doesn't detect the real applications name, detecting instead if typed in english.
Any help on this?

[HenningJ]

Thank you for reporting this.
There are a couple of duplicate reports (#700, #441). I'll keep this one open and collect all the information here.

From issue #700:

QS uses the underlying filename instead of the localized pathname. See https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/Articles/LocalizingPathnames.html for more info on the topic.

[souladdon]

Hm...so, is theres anyway to fix this?

[HenningJ]

I'm sure there is a way to fix it for the developers. As soon as somebody has time to take a look at it. But I can't promise you any kind of timeframe.
And I don't know of any workaround you can use in the meantime. Sorry. :-(

[skurfer]

For future reference (after 64-bit changes are merged), I think adding something like this to QSObject (FileHandling) -getNameFromFiles will do the trick:

// try getting display name (kMDItemDisplayName)
if (!newLabel) {
    MDItemRef mdItem = MDItemCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, (CFStringRef)path);
    if (mdItem) {
        newLabel = (NSString *)MDItemCopyAttribute(mdItem, CFSTR("kMDItemDisplayName"));
    }
}

That method could use some additional clean-up as well. There are a couple of tests on newName in places where it couldn't possibly be anything but nil.

[pjrobertson]

@skurfer - should we implement your changes?

[skurfer]

@skurfer - should we implement your changes?

If you and Henning agree that they solve the problem correctly. Don’t trust my opinion on anything containing the string “CF”. :-)

[kristianwa]

I'm still seeing issues with this on ß71 (3936).

My OSX-language is set to Norwegian.

For some system folders Quicksilver detects both the English name of the folder and the Norwegian, e.g. "Pictures"="Bilder", "Movies"="Filmer, "Music"="Musikk", "Public"="Felles".

However, when I try to search for the following folders, QS doesn't detect the localized name, only the English:
/Applications
~/Desktop
~/Documents
~/Downloads

I'm on ML 10.8.2

[skurfer]

I’m able to reproduce this. Looking into it.

[skurfer]

Found and fixed the problem. The other devs and I will discuss whether this goes into B71 final or not. (Other than me, they're all outside the U.S., so the chances are pretty good.)

[kristianwa]

Great, thanks!