On 4 Feb 2014, at 16:31, Rob McBroom <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4 Feb 2014, at 10:09, Andy Park wrote: > > Working with the Mail.app and its children items presented me with the > following difficulties. > > It makes QS very unresponsive. Not just the initial listing when I > right-arrow (which beachballed and took about a minute), but also after I > drilled down into a mailbox, it would make QS activation / deactivation lag > by more than 20 seconds. > Oh, yeah. It’s passable on an SSD, but I imagine it’s unusable on anything > else. It has to pull in subject, etc. from every single message. > > SSD doesn't help -- I'm on a 1012 MacBook Air, and I have a lot of emails (mailbox tallies at around 4-5GB). Perhaps people who delete their emails all the time can actually have workable data navigation for Mail though. > So it looks like working with the spotlight catalog wouldn't be very useful > unless it could access the QuickLook data > Actually, I forgot, but you can Quick Look the messages in Quicksilver. You > can set the “Spacebar behavior” preference to Quick Look, or just use ⌘Y. > > Thanks for the tip. What I found though is that the user experience becomes untenable at the very first search phase, as the fuzzy match only has the meaningless filenames of the emails to work with. I just couldn't get any decent hits to start the workflow with. > Would it be feasible to influence the Spotlight plugin to present a different > view of the item? > > It’s just using Quicksilver’s default code for dealing with files. I have > plans to allow plug-ins to say “I can do a better job with this file type”, > but nothing that will be available any time soon. > > That would be nice. Although I initially mentioned it purely as a spotlight-aware mechanism to view things, it now appears quite closely coupled to a more spotlight-aware mechanism to search things with, given the above experience. I.e. it would be nice if QS can work with the same data Spotlight menubar search works with, and also show it the same way the menubar search does. Nevermind that will probably be quite a bit of work :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
