In my opinion, the Spotlight plugin is primarily useful for providing Spotlight-based catalogue sources to QS. For example, instead of QS's own Find All Applications catalogue entry, which has to actually search through the entire file system looking for applications, I use a Spotlight catalogue entry that searches using the string "kind:app" for it's criteria. Instead of having to traverse the file system (and consuming system resources to do so), QS now just asks Spotlight for the info, and receives a nicely packaged list of file paths to add to the catalogue.
In my experience, the various Spotlight search actions are not very useful. The existing Spotlight interface is already well adapted to performing its task: search. Quicksilver's interface is geared towards a different function: action. If all you need to do is run a search, the existing Spotlight interface already does a good job of that, so just press Cmd-Space to invoke it. On the other hand, If you want to do something with your data, call up Quicksilver and tell it your bidding. On May 16, 6:22 pm, sclough <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just wondering if there's any reason to use the spotlight plugin > rather than using QS's normal search. Is the spotlight plugin faster > or better at listing results? I've always used the standard QS search, > but after using QSB for a while, I'm wondering if it would make sense > to take into spotlight.
