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jjw24 / Wox

Launcher for Windows, an alternative to Alfred and Launchy.
http://wox.one
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FEATURE > Include Windows Search Index #166

Closed RalfRoemling closed 4 years ago

RalfRoemling commented 4 years ago

Imo would be great to have a plugin that can use the windows index, 'cause it's containing not only filenames but content and meta-infos too.

jjw24 commented 4 years ago

Do you mean a plugin that can display the metadata about the selected file?

RalfRoemling commented 4 years ago

No, that wasn't exactly what I meant. I try to explain:

When you open Windows Indexing-Options > Advanced > File Types you can choose in which way the Windows Search Provider may index the files. Options are FileProperties only or FileProperties and Content

You already can access WindowsSearch via Win-Key and start typing.

For convenience and clarities sake it'll be great to have this search built into Wox in parallel to the ultrafast Everything Search Provider

jjw24 commented 4 years ago

This new plugin has been added to the new launcher which searches files and folders using Windows Indexing. The remaining suggestions- searching via content and meta-infos can be added later on.

RalfRoemling commented 4 years ago

Hi Jeremy, thx for including this feature. Do I get this right that you've moved jjw24/wox to Flow? Will it be available in the jjw24 updates as well or solely on Flow?

jjw24 commented 4 years ago

Hey how's it going. Right now this will only be available in Flow. In the future JJW24/Wox will be upgrade to Flow so everyone else here will get it as well.

RalfRoemling commented 4 years ago

I'm fine thx, hope you too :-)

Great to hear that there'll be an automated crossgrade. Would you recommend movin' over at the moment or is Flow more like "work in progress"?

jjw24 commented 4 years ago

I'm fine thx, hope you too :-)

Great to hear that there'll be an automated crossgrade. Would you recommend movin' over at the moment or is Flow more like "work in progress"?

I am doing good thank you :)

All functionalities are working great at the moment with Flow, only downside is that it is yet to support non-default Wox plugins(the ones you download), we will still have to work on that.

If you are only using the default plugins that are embedded currently with JJW/Wox installation, then you are good to move over to Flow. You will need to manually copy the settings files over but it's not too complicated to do.

Have said this, if you have a plugin that you find is very useful, you can let me know in the Flow repo and I will look to migrate it(can't guarantee straightaway but will do so within a timeframe).