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<h2>Google Quick Search Box 2.0.0.1362 (Manganese)</h2>
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<h3>Important Notes</h3>
<p>Due to some internal changes, your preferences are going to be reset.</p>
<h3>Enhancements in this version</h3>
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    <li>
      Fixed up issue where Actions and Contacts were not being added to the
      shortcuts.
    </li>
    <li>
      Issues <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=296">
      296</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=298">
      298</a> and 
      <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=299">299</a>: 
      Fixed a variety of issues introduced by recent changes to 
      account handling including the losing the default button, text 
      disappearing in the edit fields, account information being retained 
      though invalid.  Also fixed tabbing through fields in Google account
      setup and added some animation when captcha is required to smooth
      out the presentation.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=263">
        Issue 263</a>: Fixed runaway thread count when Spotlight is
        manually disabled.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=193">
        Issue 193</a> and 
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=253">
        Issue 253</a>: Added a Trash plugin. Search for &quot;Trash&quot; to 
        list the contents of the Trash for all mounted volumes, or use the 
        &quot;Move to Trash&quot; to quickly move files and folders to the 
        Trash.
    </li>
    <li>
        Added a SMB/AFP Sharing plugin. Search for &quot;Mount&quot; to get
        a list of nearby file shares, or type in the name of a specific
        share. Select the share and hit Return to mount the share.
    </li>
    <li>
        Fixed an exception thrown by the ChatBuddiesSource where an IMBuddy 
        result contains an NSNull for the first and/or last name fields
        by only using those names if they are actually NSStrings.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=18">
        Issue 18</a>: Google Apps accounts (AKA 'hosted') are now supported.
        When setting up a Google account, the user name is monitored as it
        is being entered and if its domain does not match "gmail.com" then
        a checkbox is presented ("This is a Google Apps account.") which,
        when checked, will set up a hosted account.  The "gmail.com" domain
        matching string can be localized using the string "@gmail.com".
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=76">
        Issue 76</a>: The 'More' line in the top results now presents the
        singular form of a category name if there is only 1 result for
        that category.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=362">
        Issue 362</a>: Fixed a problem where photos without a caption were
        coming up without any description at all in 'More' and with a blank
        top line in 'Top' results by substituting the picture title (often
        the picture's file name).   Added a Picasaweb-specific placeholder
        icon.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=365">
        Issue 365</a>: A Google Bookmarks searchable item is no longer added
        for Google hosted accounts since hosted accounts do not support
        Bookmarks.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=360">
        Issue 360</a>: Fixed a problem where if More is showing and the
        user clears the query (i.e. presses &lt;esc&gt;) then Top is
        presented but with a blank results window and a spinning progress
        indicator.
    </li>
    <li>
        Enhanced the debug log message emitted by the Developer Documentation
        search source when one of the documentation sets cannot be found
        such that the message indicates <i>which</i> of the developer 
        documentation sets could not be found and opened.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=129">
        Issue 129</a>: Added a 'Quit' action for application results.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=274">
        Issue 274</a>: Fixed a bug that would cause iTunes related actions
        (e.g., 'Add to Party Shuffle') to show up for applications other
        than iTunes.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=307">
        Issue 307</a>: Pivoting off the Dictionary application result now
        allows you to search for dictionary definitions.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=372">
        Issue 372</a>: Fixed Show in Terminal action to work with interesting
        path characters. Thanks to Martin K&uuml;hl for his help with this one.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=5">
        Issue 5</a> and 
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=7">
        Issue 7</a>: Now matches and ranks text in the middle of a string and
        deals reasonably well with matching camelcase. 
    </li>
    <li>
        Added the concept of an account type extension and updated the
        GoogleAccount and Twitter plugins.  The user interface elements
        of setting up and editing accounts has been migrated out of
        Vermilion and into QSB since it's the client's responsibility to
        provide the user interface.  See QSBEditAccountWindowController.h,
        QSBSetUpAccountViewController.h and HGSAccountTypesExtensionPoint.h.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=373">
        Issue 373</a>: We now remove whitespace from around things that we
        bring in via our service.
    </li>
    <li>
        Changed Google and Twitter account authentication code so that it
        backs off logarithmically if connection problems are encountered.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=389">
        Issue 389</a>: File system search is no longer case dependent. Thanks
        to Martin K&uuml;hl for the patch.
    </li>
    <li>
        Updated presentation of Google Docs results:
        <ul>
          <li TYPE=square>
            QSB now shows all docs contained in Google Docs when pivoting
            on the 'docs.google.com' result. 
          </li>
          <li TYPE=square>
            Added a snippet line for Google Docs results showing from which
            account the result came, which is helpful for situations where
            multiple Google accounts have been set up.
          </li>
          <li TYPE=square>
            Enhanced the docs result tooltip to show the account.
          </li>
        </ul>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=387">
        Issue 387</a>: We've temporarily disabled the developer
        documentation source while running under Snow Leopard.  This
        will be re-enabled once we can determine what has changed.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=375">
        Issue 375</a>: Corrected a problem where the 'this is a Google Apps
        account' checkbox was not being reset after the account domain
        was changed back to a non-hosted domain (such as 'gmail.com').
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=374">
        Issue 374</a>: The 'this is a Google Apps account' checkbox is no
        longer shown when setting up a Google account whose domain is
        'google.co.uk'.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=382">
        Issue 382</a>: Now, when you pivot on a Picasaweb album result,
        all images associated with that album will be shown as pivot
        results.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=406">
        Issue 406</a>: The user interface functions necessary to support
        plugins performing UI withing QSB have been moved into their own
        framework now known as QSBPluginUI.framework.  Currently, UI is
        supported for setting up and editing account credentials.
    </li>
    <li>
        Added a screensaver search source and action that also functions as
        an example of a Quick Search Box plugin implemented in Python.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=158">
        Issue 158</a>: Reduced how often the keychain is required in order
        to update Google Docs and Picasaweb sources.
    </li>
    <li>
        Fixed up iTunes ranking so that music has a chance of appearing in the
        results.
    </li>
    <li>
        Allows pivoting on any search or suggestion (eventually for querying
        but for now only for actions)
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=419">
        Issue 419</a>: Fixed a problem where activation of the preference
        window did not show current authentication status (i.e. red text)
        upon activation.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=390">
        Issue 390</a>: Looked into why a 'Grab' (cmd-g) would not keep the
        results window open.  Fixed it by setting showResults_ if there were
        any results. Then fixed the results being misplaced vertically by
        using an animator on an instance of setFrame for the window.
    </li>
    <li>
        Added a 'Welcome' window which is presented upon first launch of
        the Quick Search Box and which will continue to appear until a
        query is started of the application is quit.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=381">
        Issue 381</a>: The search box no longer gets hidden at startup if
        a keychain access authorization was also required at startup.
    </li>
    <li>
        Google corporate accounts (currently, accounts with a domain of
        'google.com' or 'google.uk.co') are now interpreted as 'hosted'
        accounts and will allow Google Corpora search sources to be used.
        In order to get this behaviour it is necessary to remove and
        re-add the Google corporate account.
    </li>
    <li>
        Added the ability to create AppleScript action plugins to QSB and 
        Python actions and sources. Please see the SDK for details.
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=1">
        Issue 1</a>: Other input methods now supported (such as Hiragana).
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/issues/detail?id=37">
        Issue 37</a>: Accented characters can now be used as input. 
    </li>
    <li>
        We are now translated into French(fr), Spanish(es), German(de), 
        Dutch(nl), Italian(it), Japanese(ja), Chinese(zh_TW, zh_CN).
    </li>
    <li>
        Google website suggestion and Google search suggestions are now on
        by default. You can still turn them off in the preferences.
    </li>
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