Option to disable auto-scanning

[poisonborz]

With Keypirinha now storing the catalog in a persistent way, is there a way to disable auto-scanning? For users who just keep a set of manually updated items, this would be a performance boon (however marginal), and a way to keep the catalog items available even if targets are currently unavailable (eg. on an external/network drive, unloaded file container etc.). Users could trigger a scan manually (right click/refresh catalog).

[polyvertex]

Yes, this is planned already; as well as per-package manual cataloging.

[poisonborz]

@polyvertex Any update on this?

[polyvertex]

Somehow... Not what you initially requested but per-package manual cataloging has been implemented for the next release.

[poisonborz]

That's great! The point was to have manual/controlled cataloging ^^ Keep up the good work!

[polyvertex]

Per-package manual cataloging is now available in v2.22.
Sorry for the long wait!

[poisonborz]

@polyvertex I hoped that the inclusion of manual scanning meant that this could optionally replace auto scanning... The manual options made things better (no restart of KP needed) but it's still cumbersome with OP case:

• User has files on removeable drive / remote network location etc. that are not always available.
• Scans files with KP.
• On next restart, said files are not currently available, but they are later on.
• KP still does not show them. User has to always rescan manually (3 clicks) whenever there is a change in available files...

Presuming that always-on scanning is not somehow vitally bound to KP core all it would take is to have a global or per-package disable_autoscan=true that would only update the catalog with these manual refreshes.

If there is an invalid item being searched for/launched, it could either be marked unavailable, display an error (Wox displays a tacky notification) or just hidden...

[polyvertex]

Well, I didn't intend to close the issue in the first place, since, as mentioned in an earlier comment, only part of the request was implemented :)

The setting will probably be named catalog_on_start or something like that, defaulting to yes.

[...] User has to always rescan manually (3 clicks) [...]

As a side note, be aware there are the Keypirinha: Refresh Catalog... items made available by the Internal package to avoid having to use the mouse.

[poisonborz]

awesome \o/ thanks, this will be really useful