More On Spotlight

Well after being disappointed with the previous spotlight implementation, I have now completely recoded this feature of Loro and it is now much faster and provides much better results. Following on from my last post, I am currently implementing the meta data pane which can be shown by pressing a hot key and shows information on a file that spotlight has indexed. Below is a mockup of how this will look.

I think that's looking pretty nice :). I've also been fixing the favorites feature and I'm pleased to announce that it's very near completion.

Favorites

Well, I've been coding up a load of new functionality for Loro recently. I've almost finished implementing the 'favorites' feature, which keeps 10 of your favorite documents or applications close to hand on Loro's 'home' screen. I've also fixed a major bug in the file browser so thats almost rock solid now :) I'm currently working on implementing the preferences system and ui which is already looking nice :D
My next idea for loro is to implement some sort of 'preview' for files so that information about files including meta data etc can be called up. I really want to release an alpha version of Loro soon so I can get feedback, so keep checking back for releases in the near future.

Spotlight + Loro

I've been working for the past few hours to integrate the Spotlight index with Loro so that you can search for files by meta data attributes such as; artist, album etc and the basic functionality is working well - Spotlight can be accessed by adding the keyword 'Search' and then the criteria as you can see in the picture. It's still a bit slow but it's a very useful feature and necessary to make Loro central as a file browser. I'm going to improve upon the default Spotlight experience by allowing powerful operators such as AND and OR to be used.

Presenting Loro

Hey everyone, I've started work on a new application for OSX called Loro. Loro is a keyboard-centric file browser and launcher with a lot of eye-candy and functionality. Loro can also be used to search Google, Wikipedia, send emails and play music. Best of all, it's completely free.

The app is very much under development at the moment and is very much inspired by the work of Neil J. Patel
(http://njpatel.blogspot.com/index.html) and his mockups of an application he is planning to make for linux. I should make it clear that we are not working together.

Things currently implemented;

Auto complete

File browsing (not bugfree but getting there)

Simple actions, typing a web address or email address

Lots of eye candy, translucency and show/hide effects such as genie and fade

Hope to release an alpha version soon.