Quicksilver vs Konfabulator?

Definitely Quicksilver. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone talk about Konfabulator in years. Even by its new name it rarely comes up.

Are you referring to Spotlight as the feature that stole Quicksilver’s thunder?

Because if so, I don’t think this is true. Really, only power users used Quicksilver in the first place, and they realize how much sturdier and versatile Quicksilver is than Spotlight. I don’t know about you, but when I press Apple+Space, it’s Quicksilver that pops up.

When I press apple+space a terminal window pops up that runs a bash script where a grep command is piped into vi, while my facebook status is updated with whatever I’m searching for, and a robotic arm fries me an egg with toast and jam. Can your Quicksilver do that!?

“power users” PSH! ;-)

ALSO, “Konfabulator” sounds like a KDE application. It should sit next to Konqueror and AmaroK and whatever else.

But, also, desktop widgets are so 2005.

Yeah, I should point out that I don’t use Konfabulator… but I also don’t use Dashboard. So it’s not a matter of stealing thunder.

I’m in agreement with tonedef here. Dashboard straight up replaces konfabulator. Spotlight and quicksilver’s feature sets only overlap slightly. Spotlight searches your filesystem. Quicksilver can be used to do that too, but that’s not really what it’s for. IT has a much smaller, quicker, user configurable index for jumping around to the stuff you use the most, but more importantly, it provides a keyboard-based interface to a lot of common tasks: e.g. It pretty much eliminates the mouse for application launching and switching, you can do stuff like paste in a URL to open a browser window, etc.

Also, what do you need eggs and jam for when you’ve got Quicksilver?

@tedward so that’s a vote for Konfabulator on the first question, and QS on the second?

dashboard on the first, QS on the second.