Re: Searching preferences?! [Was: switching to g-c-c shell?]

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 8 Jul 2005, at 01:40, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Don't you see searching for preferences as an astounding failure on  
> Apple's
> part (and others, who have done searching for preferences before)?

Yes and no.   I've certainly said in the past that I didn't think  
Apple's control panel was the easiest to find things in, so I'd agree  
that a more fundamental redesign might have reaped better rewards in  
the long term.  But then they wouldn't have had the opportunity to  
show off another aspect of Spotlight, so that probably wasn't a high  
priority for them.

On the other hand, I think the redeeming feature is that the  
preferences search deliberately matches a great deal of synonyms,  
which goes some way to addressing your concern about not being able  
to find the answer because you're not sure what the question is.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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