I was a little bit dissatisfied how current selection effects are limited, so I made my own one.

The basic idea was to make specific items animate and behave as the the touch effect.

There are some problems, for example the animation needs to be played entirely to the end before launching the item, because in that moment the animation / script stops, and it will be frozen all until the launched application appears. (Somewhat visible on the video, due to the timing not being exact)

In this example video I used two items, which are rotating and scaling when an item is touched. They need to be made by hand, and they need to be off grid.

The items used for the effect are specified at the end of the script. You can use any number of them, modify the script to your needs. Change parameters, etc.

You will want to set the script to the click action of (app) shortcuts. Also it works even when called from other scripts, in this case the caller item (which around you want the effect to appear) needs to be passed by putting it into “self.i” (I don’t know whether there is a better solution than this for passing objects between scripts)

Script is here: http://pastie.org/9335805