Comments on: Dash - Quicksilver for Windows

By: PBarrick

PBarrick — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:58:15 +0000

Well after trying Enso, Dash and Domercury I have to say I am sold on Dash. I am really into free stuff but Dash is money well spent in my opinion (in some respects it is even better than Quicksilver, and that’s saying something). If you can’t afford it try Launchy, it’s not spectacular but not horrible.

By: Dominick

Dominick — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:06:43 +0000

DOMercury is fast becoming the Windows equivalent for quicksilver, it is free, skinnable, updated frequently, and supports plugins. Not only can it launch programs, but it can also find currently running programs and perform actions on that, as well as file management and a host of other features.

By: Tobin

Tobin — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:53:33 +0000

Yeah I agree I like the different approach of Dash and Enso. Natural language structure is the future.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:15:15 +0000

There is also Enso which is a different take on the Quicksilver for windows bit. Its a sorta just-in-time command line. It’s not as powerful yet as Quicksilver (it was launched just a bit ago) but if you watch the movie on the front page, it could definetly become just as (if not more) powerful. It is also nice to not see just another Quicksilver clone, but something actually new.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:24:49 +0000

To be fair, Quicksilver has been out for several years now. Dash is just at pre-release.

Also, I got a glance at the SDK documentation directly from the developers and on paper it looks more powerful than Quicksilver in terms of architecture. Dash is not limited to a 3-pane system like QS is. They are calling it a Lexical User Interface (whatever that means).

We’ll just have to wait and see.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:14:22 +0000

Give Keybreeze a try. It can do everything Dash does and more, and it’s also free.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:42:09 +0000

i find myself pushing alt space a lot at work and being really frustrated.

By: Lime

Lime — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:08:18 +0000

haha pay? for something with the fraction of the power of quicksilver. That can sod off

Launchy is terrible, just launches apps and is very flaky with opening and maintaining focus.

Colibri is ok but again just launches and its recognition is flaky “Notepad” should not bring up anything other than notepad yet it brought up one of those “Add and change blah blah settings for this and that” shortcuts

That humanized one is terrible, makes closing an app a chore and charges a stupid price tag.

By: Chris Hudson

Chris Hudson — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:17:43 +0000

Have been looking for something like this for ages, but I wouldn’t pay for it. Yet another reason why I prefer OSX over Windows. If this carries on (Unable to find the right software) I will write one myself.

By: Jono

Jono — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:32:12 +0000

Yea, I have to cross over to the dark side now & then (for work purposes you understand

I’ve used Launchy in the past which is nice, but it only launches apps. Dash could help heal the pain of using Windows but I wouldn’t pay $50 for it.
Tried it on Vista & got lots of error messages & crashes. Worked OK on XP though.