Wox: some how avoid duplicates

[thecotne]

[roose]

In Settings page disable "AppPathsProgramSource" in "Programs" plugin

[thecotne]

why we need AppPathsProgramSource at all?

[roose]

@thecotne some programs may not create shortcuts in start menu

[thecotne]

@roose so can't we scan for duplicates
so i can search for programs witch does not have shortcut in start menu and also don't have duplicates

[aaroncampf]

What logic would we use to determine which shortcut is correct?
Would you want us to just use the first shortcut it finds?

[thecotne]

if we have multiple shortcuts of one file and that file it self
we must display only one from them one which better Matchs search query

[aaroncampf]

What if they have different names but the same target?

[thecotne]

display one which better matches search query

if some one thinks it's wrong behavior make it optional

[aaroncampf]

Here is my question

How do we define duplicates:

1. Matching Name
2. Matching Target
3. Matching Name & Target
4. Something Else

[thecotne]

Matching Target
name can be different as example
"chrome.exe" and "google chrome"

[byzeus2014]

This is a helpful suggestion.

[vovkkk]

In addition, it would be helpful to have some general exclude rules based on regex/wildcards or/and folder, e.g. I’m not interested to see *uninstall*.lnk files from Start Menu.

[jeroendv]

this is more then a suggestion, it would effectively more then double the signal to noise ratio of the query results.

in general almost all app installations have a tendency to install more then one link in the start menu. So for every program there are often 3 hits: the exe, the start menu *.lnk to the exe, the uninstall.lnk.

Only the first (or debatably the second) is useful, while the others are plain noise that the user needs to manually filter.

[bao-qian]

please try new release
https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/releases/tag/v1.4.1196

let me know if it fix or not.