Jon's guidelines are indeed right - setting the catalog depth to infinity can slow down Quicksilver substantially, and is certainly not recommended.
If you do prefer Quicksilver to Spotlight, you can use Spotlight through Quicksilver by installing the 'Spotlight Plugin'. Rob has worked incredibly hard recently on improving the Spotlight plugin, and you should expect to see an even better implementation of Spotlight within Quicksilver. You can see an extensive list of what's to come in the next version here: https://github.com/skurfer/Spotlight-qsplugin/blob/master/Documentation.mdown On 16 June 2012 19:30, Jon Stovell <[email protected]> wrote: > Basic rule of thumb: Spotlight is for finding stuff that you can't > remember where you put; Quicksilver is for doing things with your stuff. > > Also, the reason Spotlight can keep up to date on everything in the whole > system is because it is built into the deepest parts of the operating > system, and all the different parts of the system take it upon themselves > to inform Spotlight of changes. Quicksilver is a user-level application and > can't tap directly into Spotlight (the Spotlight plugin basically just > allows QS to ask Spotlight questions). For Quicksilver to index everything > on your computer, it would have to reduplicate the work done by Spotlight, > and moreover would have to explicitly check everything itself every few > minutes. Nothing else informs QS of changes, so it has to do all the work > itself. > > > On Saturday, June 16, 2012 9:45:39 AM UTC-4, Kliter Semson wrote: >> >> Ideally, I'd like to have one go-to search engine whenever using OS X. I >> prefer quicksilver over spotlight for a number of reasons and wanted to set >> the program up to search the entire contents of my operating system >> (similar to what Spotlight does). Earlier I read in a forum that changing >> the catalog depth to "infinity" would accomplish this but couldn't see it >> listed anywhere in preferences. Has anyone ever tried to set QS to search >> for everything on their hard drive - buried folders, hidden folders, system >> protected files etc etc Thanks, >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups Quicksilver group. To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, > send email to [email protected]. For > more options, visit this group at > https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Quicksilver group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en
