Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
by cmcd on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:35PM
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Why does MacOS only "sort of" have type-to-search?
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Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
by nawgszy on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:58PM
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It seems like an inaccurate statement, I would argue OSX was the first one to do type-to-search properly... Not a huge Ubuntu user admittedly.
Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
by wdobbels on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:44PM
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AFAIK, it only searches through your apps, not files.
Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
by mrkstu on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:48PM
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Spotlight is the OG OS integrated full text search, originating 2004/5:
Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
by sdegutis on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:03PM
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Spotlight has not been useful to me in over half a decade. It never finds the files I need, despite the fact that I know they're there, I know I typed them right, and I know its settings hasn't hidden or ignored them. And instead it almost always shows useless files in completely obscure parts of the OS that shouldn't even show up in Spotlight. I turned it off like a year ago and haven't regretted it since.
Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
by lloeki on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:36PM
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Maybe your md index is borked. Look into the mdutil (maintenance) and mdfind (search) commands.
Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
by mrkstu on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:10PM
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Interesting- I find it very useful. It even searches my email that is locally cached. Lots of apps create hooks into it. Major part of the ecosystem that makes MacOS what it is.
Not sure why it's borked for you...
Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
by robenkleene on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:54PM
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Spotlight on macOS most definitely searches files, much of the system is in fact built on file system metadata attributes. (It was original designed by Dominic Giampaolo, who also architected BeOS's file system.)
Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
by ajconway on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:16PM
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Recently I discovered that Xcode uses Spotlight in an interesting way — when you want to convert crash logs from your apps into readable stack traces, you only need to place the relevant symbol files anywhere on the disk where Spotlight can find them. No need to import them directly into the IDE.
Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
by lloeki on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:40PM
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Not just FS metadata, it can index ID3 tags, EXIF, and whatnot, and it’s fairly extensible, although underused.
Kind of like the underpinning concept of AppleScript and app dictionaries, awesome tech and concepts, but it’s sad to see the promise of the extensible, composable desktop slowly dying.