v2.5.6

Quicksilver v2.5.6 Release Notes

This release is a minor update to v2.5.5 to avoid a potential crash

New Features

• Extract text from images — Image objects now have their text extracted, allowing you to search for text within images
• Additional search context for objects — Objects can now carry hidden search context (e.g. text extracted from images) that improves search without cluttering the UI
• Open plugin docs on the web — Plugin documentation now opens on the web when available

Improvements

• Resolve indirect objects on a background thread — Avoids blocking the main UI and a potential deadlock
• Bring up main window synchronously — If already on the main thread, avoids an unnecessary dispatch that could cause a laggy feeling
• Improve opening the Preferences pane — Using ⌘, now more consistently brings the Preferences window to the front
• ⌘F now focuses search bars in Preferences — Works across General, Actions, and Advanced preference panes (#1011)
• Score 3rd pane objects when displaying — Improves relevance of results shown in the third pane
• More fuzzy searching for plugin names — e.g. searching "mail" now returns "E-Mail Support"
• Tweak to insertSpace — Avoids resolving objects when not needed
• Filter out non-bundle applications from results

Plugin Updates

Plugins

• Emojis Plugin (v1.1.1)

  • Update list of emojis
  • Set 'paste' as the default action for emojis

• Contacts Plugin (v2.3.1)

  • Fix scanning contacts and → into Contacts.app

• Clipboard Plugin (v1.8.7)

  • Fix a small issue that meant the clipboard could struggle to paste in some apps

• Calendar & Reminders Plugin (v1.5.1)

  • Adds a 'Next Online Meeting' proxy that allows you to quickly bring up the next online meeting URL to open it
  • Various minor improvements

• User Interface Plugin (v2.6.1)

  • Improve current document proxy: now picks up files from VSCode and Chrome

• Apple Mail Plugin (v3.2.0)

  • Apple Silicon Support
  • Various minor improvements

• E-mail Support (v3.0.1)

  • Apple Silicon Support
  • Various minor improvements

• Gmail Plugin (v1.3.0)

  • Apple Silicon Support
  • Various minor improvements

Bug Fixes

• Fix ⌘⇧ with actions using kQSObjectDefaultAction — Previously this would crash when iterating over the action array structure
• Fix using backspace in the action selector — Previously searched the whole QSLib instead of only actions
• Fix bezel interface auto layout issues
• Switch Bezel to use auto layout — Fixes layout for text mode as well
• Fix a crash when copy/pasting an NSColor
• Fix trigger hot keys not clearing when deleting with backspace in the trigger sidebar pane

UI & Appearance

• Update plugin changelog text color for dark mode

Maintenance

• Update search documentation URL to the mkdocs instance
• Update donate URL to latest page

v2.5.5

Quicksilver v2.5.5 Release Notes

New Features

• Extract text from images — Image objects now have their text extracted, allowing you to search for text within images
• Additional search context for objects — Objects can now carry hidden search context (e.g. text extracted from images) that improves search without cluttering the UI
• Open plugin docs on the web — Plugin documentation now opens on the web when available

Improvements

• Resolve indirect objects on a background thread — Avoids blocking the main UI and a potential deadlock
• Bring up main window synchronously — If already on the main thread, avoids an unnecessary dispatch that could cause a laggy feeling
• Improve opening the Preferences pane — Using ⌘, now more consistently brings the Preferences window to the front
• ⌘F now focuses search bars in Preferences — Works across General, Actions, and Advanced preference panes (#1011)
• Score 3rd pane objects when displaying — Improves relevance of results shown in the third pane
• More fuzzy searching for plugin names — e.g. searching "mail" now returns "E-Mail Support"
• Tweak to insertSpace — Avoids resolving objects when not needed
• Filter out non-bundle applications from results

Plugin Updates

Plugins

• Emojis Plugin (v1.1.1)

  • Update list of emojis
  • Set 'paste' as the default action for emojis

• Contacts Plugin (v2.3.1)

  • Fix scanning contacts and → into Contacts.app

• Clipboard Plugin (v1.8.7)

  • Fix a small issue that meant the clipboard could struggle to paste in some apps

• Calendar & Reminders Plugin (v1.5.1)

  • Adds a 'Next Online Meeting' proxy that allows you to quickly bring up the next online meeting URL to open it
  • Various minor improvements

• User Interface Plugin (v2.6.1)

  • Improve current document proxy: now picks up files from VSCode and Chrome

• Apple Mail Plugin (v3.2.0)

  • Apple Silicon Support
  • Various minor improvements

• E-mail Support (v3.0.1)

  • Apple Silicon Support
  • Various minor improvements

• Gmail Plugin (v1.3.0)

  • Apple Silicon Support
  • Various minor improvements

Bug Fixes

• Fix ⌘⇧ with actions using kQSObjectDefaultAction — Previously this would crash when iterating over the action array structure
• Fix using backspace in the action selector — Previously searched the whole QSLib instead of only actions
• Fix bezel interface auto layout issues
• Switch Bezel to use auto layout — Fixes layout for text mode as well
• Fix a crash when copy/pasting an NSColor
• Fix trigger hot keys not clearing when deleting with backspace in the trigger sidebar pane

UI & Appearance

• Update plugin changelog text color for dark mode

Maintenance

• Update search documentation URL to the mkdocs instance
• Update donate URL to latest page

v2.5.4

What's Changed

• Fix for input methods (e.g. cangjie/pinyin - 倉頡/拼音): by @pjrobertson in #3078
• Updated Calendar plugin with a new 'Next Online Meeting' proxy object to quickly find your next meeting!

• Updated Mail support, Apple Mail and Gmail support for latest versions of macOS 🎉
• Drag drop deprecations by @pjrobertson in #3079
• Fix adding Finder sidebar items and 'recent documents' to the catalog by @pjrobertson in #3083
• Various small fixes and improvements based on crash reports (please keep submitting them!) by @pjrobertson in #3084
• Fixes to accelerate and avoid processsor hogging in QSProcessMonitor.m: by @mauritium in #3087
• Silence some superfluous logs @n8henrie in #3076

Development

• Extend the self-signed cert expiration to 10 years by @n8henrie in #3075
• Convert qs-push-plugin to swift by @n8henrie in #3081

New Contributors

• @mauritium made their first contribution in #3087 - Thank you! 🎉

Full Changelog: v2.5.3...v2.5.4

v2.5.3

What's Changed

• Fix rare crash when using the current selection proxy @pjrobertson in #3067
• Updated Czech, Dutch and Spanish translations [see more]
• New feature: option to close the Quicksilver window after dragging and dropping @pjrobertson in #3066

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Full Changelog: v2.5.2...v2.5.3

v2.5.2

What's Changed

• Fixes #3045 by @pjrobertson in #3047
• Clearer version information in update process by @pjrobertson in #3050
• Improved translation file management by @pjrobertson in #3058
• Fix labels for cloud files (Google Drive, Dropbox etc.) by @pjrobertson in #3056
• Fix 'Grab and Drop' by fixing default bindings command string order by @pjrobertson in #3055

Development

• Better local codesign for easier development setup @pjrobertson in #3035
• Minor CI tweaks by @n8henrie in #3051

Full Changelog: v2.5.1...v2.5.2

v2.5.1

Build version: 4044

What's Changed

• Fix: Only check for screenshot permissions on macos11+ by @pjrobertson in #3042
• Fix: Don't display interface on startup by @pjrobertson in #3041
• Fix: refresh recent documents when → into applications by @pjrobertson in #3043

Full Changelog: v2.5.0...v2.5.1

v2.5.0

Build version 4043

What's Changed

• macos-12 runner is deprecated by @n8henrie in #3021
• Prepare QS to include Swift by @n8henrie in #3023
• check for nil path by @n8henrie in #3030
• Many Fixes for Sequoia by @pjrobertson in #3025
• Improved accessibility prompt for enabling permissions in #3025
• Code speedup and general improvements in #3025

Full Changelog: v2.4.3...v2.5.0

v2.4.3

v2.4.3

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