> Le 13 avr. 2015 à 17:51, random1destiny <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>> On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 11:17:40 AM UTC-4, Etienne wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure that filtering gobs of paths is a use case we support...
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this. A decent logical search ranking is
> important to any application, let alone a launcher app whose sole purpose is
> getting to things quickly. It's the first thing anyone looks at when picking
> a launcher. In the post-Google world this use case should be assumed,
> especially when the application is built around searching for stuff.
I meant that — though I see your point — QS main purpose is to find things
fast, not really "searching" for stuff (at least that's how I understand it). I
mean, don't use it to search for applications, just open them quickly using a
few keys (and there was a time where QS surely beat the crap out of Spotlight),
and the same for other kinds of objects, like Contacts — I don't really care
about searching Contacts, I just care about having them at a few keystrokes'
worth of my time. This is exemplified by our little motto "Act without doing,
work without effort".
So, maybe there's something I don't get about what you're actually doing ;-).
The thing is, you'll *have* to "explain" to QS what you want to do, either
forcefully through "Assign abbreviation...", or automagically through the
Mnemonics system and repeated execution. As you can see the first time it will
likely get things wrong because there's many things on you computer that could
match "orb", and as it prefers matches closer to the beginning of what's
matched because that's how it's done currently.
Note that I do agree that the ranking looks fishy, so I'll try to take a look
at what happens with file path... But I fear this requires some good thinking —
a way of working around that mess would be some kind of "noise" filtering
("/Applications/" being kinda useless to match on if you get 1000 items that
match in there, as we can see, so that first 'o' should rank lower).
Regards,
Etienne Samson
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