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Re: New Spotlight Info
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Re: New Spotlight Info


  • Subject: Re: New Spotlight Info
  • From: Gideon King <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:44:39 +1000

In the posted documentation, it states that the importers need to be placed in ~/Library/MDImporters or /Library/MDImporters. This means that when you distribute an application you need to either:
a) include an installer of some type to put the importer into place, or
b) get the user to drag the application to the Applications folder and drag the importer to the MDImporters folder


This means that the simple disk image with the application in it, and the single step install will be a thing of the past.

What I was wondering is whether it would be possible to get the Finder to also look inside application wrappers to find the importer bundles and register them at the same time as the system picks up the presence of the application itself. This would allow us to keep the simple "Application contains everything you need" model.


Are there any downsides to this suggestion that I'm missing?




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