On Jun 13, 2010, at 10:24 AM, sclough wrote: > My understanding is that QS will use spotlight to gather the data if you > use the plugin and set up sources, but it still has to manage it's own > index, thus providing a place where spotlight would add some > efficiency. Of course, I'm talking a little out of my league and > guessing how the software really works, so this could be a non-issue.
It might be nice if the Spotlight plug-in used NSMetadataQuery instead of just calling the `mdfind` command in the background (which seems hacky), but that's internal stuff that isn't likely to affect the user experience much. As for how the index is kept, trust me, we want to keep the internal Quicksilver copy. It allows things to have more than one “type”. Plus a lot of plug-ins have a need to index things that Spotlight wouldn't show (such as individual lines in a file, Cyberduck bookmarks, FireFox bookmarks, etc). Most importantly, it doesn't include everything like Spotlight does, which allows it to be more responsive. -- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>
