On May 16, 2010, at 10:44 PM, sclough wrote: > So, if I understand it correctly, using the Spotlight catalog sources > rather than the normal QS catalog sources should cut down resources > usage because QS no longer has to maintain the index, correct? I'm > assuming the normal QS ranking, etc still works correctly.
The process of locating things to be added might be more efficient using Spotlight, depending on the items, but there won't a difference in Quicksilver's memory footprint unless there are a different number of results. Everything you add to the catalogue will be indexed and tracked by Quicksilver in the same way. Using Spotlight is just another way to get things into the catalogue, but once they're there, they're there. I also use Spotlight to add applications instead of the built-in source, but I search for “kMDItemKind == Application” instead of “kind:app” since the latter seems to include a lot of “noise” that I'm not interested in (593 items vs. 468). One occasional problem I've noticed with this technique is that if you have a backup drive connected or something like that, the backup copies will get indexed too (and seem to rank higher for some reason). But that's rare enough that I don't worry about it. -- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>
