Google Quick Search Box 2.0.0.1269 (Manganese)

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Important Notes

Due to some internal changes, your preferences are going to be reset.

Enhancements in this version

Fixed up issue where Actions and Contacts were not being added to the shortcuts.

Issues 296, 298 and 299: Fixed a variety of issues introduced by recent changes to account handling including the losing the default button, text disappearing in the edit fields, account information being retained though invalid. Also fixed tabbing through fields in Google account setup and added some animation when captcha is required to smooth out the presentation.

Issue 263: Fixed runaway thread count when Spotlight is manually disabled.

Issue 193 and Issue 253: Added a Trash plugin. Search for "Trash" to list the contents of the Trash for all mounted volumes, or use the "Move to Trash" to quickly move files and folders to the Trash.

Added a SMB/AFP Sharing plugin. Search for "Mount" to get a list of nearby file shares, or type in the name of a specific share. Select the share and hit Return to mount the share.

Fixed an exception thrown by the ChatBuddiesSource where an IMBuddy result contains an NSNull for the first and/or last name fields by only using those names if they are actually NSStrings.

Issue 18: Google Apps accounts (AKA 'hosted') are now supported. When setting up a Google account, the user name is monitored as it is being entered and if its domain does not match "gmail.com" then a checkbox is presented ("This is a Google Apps account.") which, when checked, will set up a hosted account. The "gmail.com" domain matching string can be localized using the string "@gmail.com".

Issue 76: The 'More' line in the top results now presents the singular form of a category name if there is only 1 result for that category.

Issue 362: Fixed a problem where photos without a caption were coming up without any description at all in 'More' and with a blank top line in 'Top' results by substituting the picture title (often the picture's file name). Added a Picasaweb-specific placeholder icon.

Issue 365: A Google Bookmarks searchable item is no longer added for Google hosted accounts since hosted accounts do not support Bookmarks.

Issue 360: Fixed a problem where if More is showing and the user clears the query (i.e. presses <esc>) then Top is presented but with a blank results window and a spinning progress indicator.

Enhanced the debug log message emitted by the Developer Documentation search source when one of the documentation sets cannot be found such that the message indicates which of the developer documentation sets could not be found and opened.

Issue 129: Added a 'Quit' action for application results.

Issue 274: Fixed a bug that would cause iTunes related actions (e.g., 'Add to Party Shuffle') to show up for applications other than iTunes.

Issue 307: Pivoting off the Dictionary application result now allows you to search for dictionary definitions.

Issue 372: Fixed Show in Terminal action to work with interesting path characters. Thanks to Martin Kühl for his help with this one.

Issue 5 and Issue 7: Now matches and ranks text in the middle of a string and deals reasonably well with matching camelcase.

Added the concept of an account type extension and updated the GoogleAccount and Twitter plugins. The user interface elements of setting up and editing accounts has been migrated out of Vermilion and into QSB since it's the client's responsibility to provide the user interface. See QSBEditAccountWindowController.h, QSBSetUpAccountViewController.h and HGSAccountTypesExtensionPoint.h.

Issue 373: We now remove whitespace from around things that we bring in via our service.

Changed Google and Twitter account authentication code so that it backs off logarithmically if connection problems are encountered.

Issue 389: File system search is no longer case dependent. Thanks to Martin Kühl for the patch.

Updated presentation of Google Docs results:

QSB now shows all docs contained in Google Docs when pivoting on the 'docs.google.com' result.
Added a snippet line for Google Docs results showing from which account the result came, which is helpful for situations where multiple Google accounts have been set up.
Enhanced the docs result tooltip to show the account.

Issue 387: We've temporarily disabled the developer documentation source while running under Snow Leopard. This will be re-enabled once we can determine what has changed.

Issue 375: Corrected a problem where the 'this is a Google Apps account' checkbox was not being reset after the account domain was changed back to a non-hosted domain (such as 'gmail.com').

Issue 374: The 'this is a Google Apps account' checkbox is no longer shown when setting up a Google account whose domain is 'google.co.uk'.

Issue 382: Now, when you pivot on a Picasaweb album result, all images associated with that album will be shown as pivot results.

Issue 406: The user interface functions necessary to support plugins performing UI withing QSB have been moved into their own framework now known as QSBPluginUI.framework. Currently, UI is supported for setting up and editing account credentials.

Added a screensaver search source and action that also functions as an example of a Quick Search Box plugin implemented in Python.

Issue 158: Reduced how often the keychain is required in order to update Google Docs and Picasaweb sources.

Fixed up iTunes ranking so that music has a chance of appearing in the results.