Program indexing

[redraskal]

May not be as relevant on all systems, but the Windows 11 start menu is pretty awful. For example, I randomly need to click on the search bar 3 times to allow me to type. I would love to be able to launch Start Menu shortcuts (%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs) from Spyglass. Would be nice to have the program icon. Is this in scope? Maybe it fits under the local file indexer?

[a5huynh]

I think that's a pretty reasonable request! We'll need to check to see how to do this platform independently.

[travolin]

The system now has an initial implementation of this. If you add the Start Menu\Programs to your list of local files to search, spyglass will properly process shortcuts and when an executable is selected will launch the application. This is obviously not proper program indexing, but should be usable until we add real program indexing.

[Bondrake]

Yeah, seems like this is already taking design inspiration from things like Alfred and Wox (or Quicksilver and Launchy, if you're old enough). Would be nice to roll in some of the functionality from those.