Ronge

There is a cool article at MacDevCenter on writing Spotlight plugins. While it’s great that 3rd party developers are writing spotlight plugins, I do have a few qualms with some recently released plugins. For example, the OmniGraffle spotlight plugin includes an attribute called Number of Shapes. How is this ever going to be of use? How is knowing the number of layers going to help filter a search? It beats me. Maybe someone out there has a clever use for it? Also, OmniGraffle includes an attribute named Number of Layers. Uh oh, OS X already has an attribute Layers that is supposed to be for the number of layers in a document. I think Omni has just created a duplicate attribute by mistake.

So I hope:

1. Developers include attributes which are going to be of use
2. They do not create duplicate attributes