If you are a Quicksilver fan and also a non-English native (like me), the following situation must sound familiar to you: you activated Quicksilver, started to type a couple of letters and immediately realized that you forgot to switch to English keyboard first, then you switched to English keyboard and continued your workflow. Wouldn’t your life be easier if Quicksilver can switch to English keyboard automatically once it is activated?

Personally, I would love to have this feature so my workflow would not interrupted. Someone else share this same opinion with me. There is a feature request on Quicksilver’s issue tracking system on github.

What really triggered me to implement this feature rather than waiting for others to do that is a “Alfred vs Quicksilver” debate in a local forum. An alfred user claimed that “my alfred can automatically switch my keyboard to English once activated. Can your Quicksilver do that?”. Oh..no, at least not yet. But I got the motivation to implement this, just for my favorite mac tool to compete better against others.

With the help of nice guys at Quicksilver, I sent out the pull request and made a lot of changes per comments. It is still not merged yet, but I have the confidence that it will be. ;-)

The link to my pull request is here. And the following is peak view of how this feature works: