When I made the Cover Flow UI mock-up for Quicksilver there wasn’t any thought in how it would actually work. It was just throwing the idea out there to see how it could look.

Cover Flow mode is up & running for Julius Eckert’s SilverFlow interface, & it’s taking a bit more thought on how to actually implement it.

For the 3 pane mode (Move To…, Copy To… etc.) here’s a mock-up of how I see it working.

Movie file selected, Open is the default action.

Tabbed to the 2nd pane, selecting ‘Move To…’ as the action.

Movies folder selected as the location to move the file to.

Here’s how it would look if you typed some text (in text mode) & the default option was Paste

And here it’s tabbed to the 2nd pane & selected Copy to Clipboard instead of Paste.

Julius Eckert has released his Bezel HUD UI for Quicksilver.
(This is a different version to Julius’ SilverFlow UI & Ankur’s Bezel Pro UI).

Based on the mock-ups here.

Still a few tweaks to be done but already looking excellent. Download it from Julius’ site.
(OS X 10.5 or later only).

Ankur Kothari (from Vacuous Virtuoso) has agreed to make the Quicksilver UI from the mockups I made

Here’s the first version of the actual UI plugin that he’s made up & running (not a mockup).

Update 23/9/07:

Here’s the latest version.

There are a few changes needed but overall I think it’s a great start.

Apparently it’s not possible to make the results list like that in my mockup for the current version. But it might be possible once a new version of Quicksilver for Leopard is released.

I posted a mockup I made of a UI I’d like to see for Quicksilver on flickr.

Click the image for a larger preview.

I looked into making it & found that it looked possible, but haven’t had the time to have a go at it.

Anyway, someone has contacted me saying they’d like to have a go at it. So hopefully it’ll see the light of day in the future