[Psi-devel] comment from a user

[Kevin Smith]

On 28 Feb 2007, at 14:45, Brian wrote:
> Kinda throws a wrench in systemwide index/search strategies like
> Spotlight on MacOS, too (unless you provide a spotlight mdimporter
> plugin thingy for it as well). :(

We won't want to remove the human-readable files (although we might  
conceivably change their format).

> Personally, for chat storage I most like the strategy Apple took with
> iChat -- each conversation is a separate file, much like the maildir
> (Qmail) way of mail spooling. Spotlight finds what you're looking
> for, selecting one of the messages opens it through iChat.

Spotlight itself uses an indexing system (i.e. database), of course ;)

> as I could switch it off and stick with plain-text files, I'd be  
> just fine. :)

You won't want to do that ;)

/K

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Kevin Smith
Psi XMPP Client Project Leader (http://psi-im.org)