quicksilver/Quicksilver — Issue #512: Shelf and Clipboard inseparable
Author: seyDoggy
Created: 2011-10-24 11:27:26+00:00
State: open

Years ago, shelf and clipboard were two separate panels. Now Shelf, or "clipboard storage", as it now seems to be known, are tied together in that you can't view the two at the same time. I used to drag bits of of the clipboard onto the shelf, something that is no longer possible now.

This also has another side effect. I can set a hot key trigger to bring up the clipboard history, and I can set a hot key trigger to bring up the "clipboard storage", but once I've fired the storage hot key, the panel is locked as storage and the trigger for history just opens the storage again.

I can see why you guys thought these two panels ought to be tied together but they shouldn't be. Historically speaking, the shelf was the shelf, a totally different beast from the clipboard. Merlin Mann used to go on about the shelf, blogs were written about the shelf, the shelf was the single most useful and unique bit of functionality about QuickSilver. It was a snippet repository before people coined the term. The shelf is the shelf, and has nothing to do with the clipboard beyond sharing a similar look and some common code in a plugin. Their purposes are completely unrelated. The shelf is not "clipboard storage".

It would be awesome if you guys considered restoring the shelf to it's former glory.