Re: New Spotlight Info
Re: New Spotlight Info
- Subject: Re: New Spotlight Info
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:12:06 -0800
On Nov 8, 2004, at 11:15 PM, j o a r wrote:
What about legacy file formats without any built in support for meta
data, like perhaps TXT?
There is a plain-text importer.
I guess that the answer is that they're going to be supported only in
the most basic way (date created, et.c.) by Spotlight?
No, spotlight will build a full-text index, too.
I think it would be nice with some guidelines for developers, helping
them to design their file formats in a way that makes them suited to
work as sources for meta data queries. Perhaps NSDocument /
NSFileWrapper should be extended to provide a standard implementation
of meta data storage? I think it would be good if you didn't have to
write a custom meta-data plug-in for every application.
I also think that this is a bit weird:
===========================================================
Once the meta-data plug-in is built and has been tested, you make it
available for Spotlight's use by putting it into one of the following
directories:
~/Library/MDImporters
/Library/MDImporters
===========================================================
Why not also search the application wrappers per default
(My.app/Contents/MDImporters)?
Not a bad idea. Why don't you submit that as feature request?
-jcr
John C. Randolph <email@hidden> (408) 974-8819
Sr. Cocoa Software Engineer,
Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/index.html
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