Guys, I am not a developer so appreciate all the insights/comments regarding the difficulties in the QS code structure and documentation.
Is there anyway / anything that the average non-coder believer can do to help more ? On Jun 15, 1:45 am, Rob McBroom <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/>
