Powertoys: Installing Plugins to PowerToys Run is different to Wox
Is the plugin environment the same as with Wox? The Wox.Plugin package seems to still be present. Can existing wox plugins be used? I can't drag any files into the launcher like I could with wox.
Do you have any guides or tips for creating a plugin otherwise?
dewinterjack
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right now we haven't tested that path. is there a plugin you want enabled? would be good to know what some of everyone's favorites are so we can validate.
crutkas
on 19 May 2020
I鈥檓 experimenting with developing my own extensions. I managed to get it working with Wox and it seems that PowerToys Run is using a very similar system. I tried compiling my extension and mimicking the other extensions by placing the folder with the other plugins C:\Program Files\PowerToys\modules\launcher\Plugins however the launcher isn't starting up.
I'm seeing this in the logs:
2020-05-19 20:44:03.4743|ERROR|PluginConfig.GetPluginMetadata|Didn't find config file
dewinterjack
on 19 May 2020
I could try to contribute some plugin installation support if this hasn鈥檛 been looked into yet.
dewinterjack
on 19 May 2020
right now it is disabled so we can stabilize the core. Else debugging could get progressively hard if we can't account for the base with people
crutkas
on 20 May 2020
right now we haven't tested that path. is there a plugin you want enabled? would be good to know what some of everyone's favorites are so we can validate.
everything search would be the must have for me including configuring indexed locations etc (even if this is done through everything itself like the wox integration)
addrum
on 20 May 2020
Some of us would appreciate an instant translation plugin, like Gtranslate.
ABS96
on 9 Jun 2020
I personally would appreciate default browser's bookmark search. From what I remember when I was using Wox, their various bookmark search plugins were not efficient. Chromium's own omnibox is an excellent tool for bookmark searching.
ghost
on 11 Jun 2020
I would personally really like the ability to convert between units, for example, to convert from imperial to metric.
calania
on 8 Aug 2020
Lorem Ipsum Generator would be awesome
drew-royster
on 27 Aug 2020
Would also be great to convert currencies
Dhruva-Storz
on 1 Sep 2020
Am also hoping to see plugins soon! This would allow developers to focus more on core features and leave stuff like integrated search #3245 and translate to the plugin creators.
eiis1000
on 11 Sep 2020
right now it is disabled so we can stabilize the core. Else debugging could get progressively hard if we can't account for the base with people
So this means we can enable it and compile it ourselves?
gtheys
on 17 Sep 2020
In theory, if the plugins go against the plugin interface, it should work. I know we may have tweaked the interface however from the wox
crutkas
on 17 Sep 2020
I would also appreciate plugins support as I find Powertoys Run fast and well-designed but I've moved temporarily to Listary due to their extensibility, e.g. you can setup shortcut and url with placeholder {query} which is replaced so we can fast query nearly all pages like google, bing, filmweb, imdb, etc.
Drabenstein
on 14 Nov 2020
Devdocs or Zeal or something similar would be great.
Maybe custom web search providers
dlgombert
on 18 Nov 2020
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everything search would be the must have for me including configuring indexed locations etc (even if this is done through everything itself like the wox integration)