Yes sir, I'm not kidding, I got one work, and rather nicely I might add (current functionality bugs aside). I still use it every day, even though I haven't (until recently) touched the code in over a year. As it turns out, the trick was that for 2 years I never notices that WPF Windows have an event called TextInput. Once I killed all semblance of any text boxes on the interface and had this event route the input from the window level to where it needs to go, everything started responding. I give credit to this discovery to a program called MightBox, which also hasn't been updated in about a year. The developer wrote a very beautiful looking interface but unfortunately his is also a bit buggy and the functionality is less expansive than DOMercury's. At any rate, I think I'll contact the developer, I like his ideas and maybe some collaboration would really propel the "Quicksilver for Windows" world forward. I have in the last week or so madly coded to develop a mildly usable interface called Bezel++. Yes it animates when you tab to the parameters pane, yes it does a nifty blur out trick when you exit or perform an action. The icons are snazzier. They glow and have nifty reflections. The main panel is translucent. And it's buggy. Sorry, that's why its labeled 3.0 BETA, and because Bezel++ is heavy on memory usage at the moment (I have no idea why, its kind of driving me nuts though) Bezel++ is NOT the default interface. To activate it you will have to go into the
Options, Interfaces tab and double click on Bezel++, then click OK to start the new Bezel++ interface. I need user feedback on it. Also, I did away with the installer. The thumbdrive package is downloaded way more often anyway.
Anyone with WPF experience who wants to improve the user interface, DOMercury is provided open source on <a href="http://code.google.com">code.google.com</a>.
If anyone is curious as to the extremely large break in development( of which I'm sure you are interested), much of it has to do with rotating interests( of which I'm pretty sure you aren't interested). Basically, I have spent the last two years becoming fluent in Italian, attaining my black belt in Judo, working toward my M.S. in Software Engineering, working on house improvements with my wife, and polishing my career as a stand up comedian. That last one was a joke, a pretty lame one, which is why I am not a stand up comedian. It has kept me ridiculously busy, and my resurgence into programming DOMercury basically came by chance when I thought "hey maybe this will work" on a few options I was throwing around in my head.
I (and hopefully you) look forward to what the future brings.