Re: Cocoa's Popularity
Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- Subject: Re: Cocoa's Popularity
- From: Evan DiBiase <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 00:56:12 -0500
On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 12:28 AM, Erik M. Buck wrote:
DigitalLibrarians
I think that Sherlock was intended as a replacement for this.
Thats is the sad part. What is Sherlock good for ? Does anybody use
it ?
It's virtually unusable. When I used MacOS back in System 7, my friend
(who actually owned the Quadra) and I made extensive use of the find
utility. It worked really well, and helped us locate things quickly and
easily.
When I bought my iBook, I was looking forward to having the same
functionality, but find instead that Sherlock is such a slow, badly
designed program that I've given up on the Find functionality all
together, which is the real shame.
I've thought about making my first serious Cocoa application a utility
which would do find right, using user-definable metadata to make things
that much cooler, but without any good way to know when new files hit
the system, it seems like it would be intolerably slow. May be worth a
shot, though.
At any rate, to get back on topic (as much as is possible), it would be
great to have some sort of light-weight file searching utility back in
the OS. Normally I'd be confident in Apple's ability to smooth out this
UI wrinkle, but since Sherlock appears to be some sort of tradition at
this point, so I'm not sure how honest I'd be if I said I expect things
to change for the better soon.
-Evan
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