macosXrumors is reporting that Mac OS X 10.5 will have a new Finder (via TUAW).
According to the sources, Apple will entirely re-design the Finder in its next major Mac OS X update. The new version of the Finder, code-named “Chardonnay� (like the wine), will be totally based on the Spotlight meta-search technology which was introduced earlier this year with Tiger.
If true, this is good news. As much as I like the idea of Spotlight, it’s so poorly implemented that I never use it. I still prefer to use grep or even the command-line Spotlight app I wrote.
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I’d have to see this before I could pass judgement on it. The idea of promoting laziness when it comes to file catalogging (such as what Spotlight does, much as I like it’s concept) sounds very, very bad to me.