Tweaking Quicksilver’s new cube interface
Tony Arnold has uncovered the appearance pane 
for Quicksilver’s new cube interface.
If you have the Cube Interface plugin installed, all you have to do is click on the link that Tony provides —
qs://preferences#QSCubeInterfacePrefPane
A (hidden) preference pane full of options and knobs appears:
Tony has produced a cube that seems alive with all the magic of Quicksilver fairy dust. Even if you don’t have an aesthetic bone in your body, fooling around with the settings quickly produces something distinctively your own:
I guess that this pane is what the Customize button in the Appearance preferences should lead to, but doesn’t yet.
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July 17th, 2006 at 9:45 am
This is great - but how do I pull up this hidden preference pane without having to come to a website and click on a link to launch it?
July 17th, 2006 at 9:52 am
Lynden, just copy the URL - qs://preferences#QSCubeInterfacePrefPane - and plug it into the location bar in your browser of choice. Hit return.
July 26th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
I guess I’m showing my newly switched newbieness. I figured out how to save the link to my bookmarks so I can bring up the preference pane when ever I want.
My question is, how do I get the cube interface to actually show up in Quicksilver? I do a Ctrl-Space as usual and get the usual look and feel.
July 26th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
First you will need to check in the list of plugins in Quicksilver’s preferences to see if you have installed. Install it, if not.
Then:
Preferences → Settings → Appearance → Command Interface → Cube
July 26th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Thanks, I had it installed, just didn’t know about the Command Interface thing.