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Back in the System Preferences days, I was able to type in a prefpane's name and open it from Quicksilver. Now, with System Settings, this seems to have broken (at least somewhat). I'm still able to type in prefpane if I want to return a list of the available .prefpane options to open in System Settings, but searching by the title in the System Settings app doesn't seem to work. Additionally, searching for any specific settings generally returns no results (compare this to Spotlight, where specific settings get matched, and then the System Settings application opens to the appropriate place.
To use a specific example: In the past, I used to be able to type in "Login Items" in Quicksilver, and have System Preferences open to the "Login Items" part of the "Users" prefpane. Now that it's under System Settings > General > Login Items & Extensions, it doesn't work. Spotlight, on the other hand, works exactly as expected (and exactly how Quicksilver used to... oddly enough I don't remember Spotlight doing this back in the day).
Steps to reproduce
First:
Activate Quicksilver
Type in any System Settings option (ex. "Login Items" or "Login" or "Items", or "Privacy & Security" or "Privacy" or "Security". Spotlight matches the all of the former to "Login Items" and all of the latter to "Privacy & Security" in the System Settings app.
Review matches.
Then:
Activate Quicksilver
Type in prefpane
Review matches
Expected behavior
I expect Quicksilver to resolve matches to System Settings and open the System Settings app to the appropriate location, like it used to and like Spotlight now does.
MacOS Version
Sequoia 15.2
Quicksilver Version
2.4.3 (4042)
Relevant Plugins
N/A (I have System > Configuration > Preference Panes in the catalog, but the plugins shouldn't be relevant to this behavior unless there's specifically a plugin to fix this)
Crash Logs or Spindump
N/A (No Crash)
Screenshots
Additional info
I seriously prefer Quicksilver to Spotlight, as I have for over a decade at this point. This is literally the first time in the entire history of my using this application that I've found myself needing to use Spotlight instead of Quicksilver in order to progress through my workflow, so it's a bit jarring for me and I hope it's something that can be resolved!
I know Quicksilver's Catalog is independent of Spotlight's Index, but is there any way to use Spotlight's Index as a backup for QS?
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Unfortunately, however, there does not seem to be a way to search for preference panes in this way (Spotlight doesn't support it). Right now, the only way to get a list of what preference panes exist (only some of them) is using this method:
A coding project could be to create a plugin/edit the existing catalog item to hard-code these items, but it would then a) need updating whenever a new item is added b) would only be in English
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Bug description
Back in the System Preferences days, I was able to type in a prefpane's name and open it from Quicksilver. Now, with System Settings, this seems to have broken (at least somewhat). I'm still able to type in
prefpane
if I want to return a list of the available .prefpane options to open in System Settings, but searching by the title in the System Settings app doesn't seem to work. Additionally, searching for any specific settings generally returns no results (compare this to Spotlight, where specific settings get matched, and then the System Settings application opens to the appropriate place.To use a specific example: In the past, I used to be able to type in "Login Items" in Quicksilver, and have System Preferences open to the "Login Items" part of the "Users" prefpane. Now that it's under System Settings > General > Login Items & Extensions, it doesn't work. Spotlight, on the other hand, works exactly as expected (and exactly how Quicksilver used to... oddly enough I don't remember Spotlight doing this back in the day).
Steps to reproduce
First:
Then:
prefpane
Expected behavior
I expect Quicksilver to resolve matches to System Settings and open the System Settings app to the appropriate location, like it used to and like Spotlight now does.
MacOS Version
Sequoia 15.2
Quicksilver Version
2.4.3 (4042)
Relevant Plugins
N/A (I have System > Configuration > Preference Panes in the catalog, but the plugins shouldn't be relevant to this behavior unless there's specifically a plugin to fix this)
Crash Logs or Spindump
N/A (No Crash)
Screenshots
Additional info
I seriously prefer Quicksilver to Spotlight, as I have for over a decade at this point. This is literally the first time in the entire history of my using this application that I've found myself needing to use Spotlight instead of Quicksilver in order to progress through my workflow, so it's a bit jarring for me and I hope it's something that can be resolved!
I know Quicksilver's Catalog is independent of Spotlight's Index, but is there any way to use Spotlight's Index as a backup for QS?
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: