BUG: Fix uninstall entry for Windows settings to allow 'uninstall' query

[nanoraptor]

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Problem Description

I am unable to get to the windows settings' uninstall menu. when I type s uninstall and enter, It just opens the settings app. If you look closely you will find that s uninstall does not even redirect to the path itself. It shows settings>mixed reality.

To Reproduce

1. type s uninstall
2. select the one with the windows settings icon

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Flow Launcher Version

1.19.1

Windows Build Number

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.4894]

Error Log

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[jjw24]

The uninstall settings page in windows 11 is now called 'Apps' or 'Apps Features' right?

[nanoraptor]

The uninstall settings page in windows 11 is now called 'Apps' or 'Apps Features' right?

Well, in windows 10 it is called App Features. I don't know about windows 11. Although the apps can be uninstalled from there, the s uninstall should send me to the 'App Features' page and not the 'Mixed reality' one. That's my point here.

[weiluntong]

I do agree, I've typed s uninstall multiple times because from the normal start menu, I'm used to being able to type uninstall, in which it will take me to App Features (hilariously, typing App Features or Apps will not find the settings in the normal start, whereas flow will correctly find it with s App Features or s Apps). It doesn't help that in the normal start menu, if you type uninstall, the suggested result that will take you to the page you need to uninstall apps is titled as "Add or remove programs". So admittedly, I didn't know how to find that settings page (without manually opening Settings and click navigating to it) until I cam here and say "Apps" or "Apps Features".

Though I see that typing s uninstall does suggest the control panel version, which I'd very much like to keep as well, not sure if they fixed this, but I know early Windows Settings days, there were somethings you couldn't find in the Control Panel Uninstall window, and some things you couldn't find in the Windows Settings days.

I would still like to see the ability to reach "Apps"/"Apps Features" by typing s uninstall though.

[jjw24]

Yes I see the inconvenience, the plugin searches the item title and description to match your query, it's just the whole uninstall entry is inconveniently not containing the 'uninstall' word. I don't want to hardcode this word in the code, maybe there is something in the Settings plugin we can edit to add the word into the description.

[weiluntong]

actually, I 100% get you. hardcoded exceptions are a slippery slope. Oh! Speaking of word shortcuts. Out of scope of this issue, but is there partial matching for "Custom Query Shortcuts"? For example, I have "reboot" translating to "restart", and I also have "vscode" translate to "code" (personal tinfoil hat reasons against Microsoft). It'd be nice to partially match the queries to save some keystrokes.

[jjw24]

Yeah I forgot to mention you can use custom query to translate s uninstall to s apps.

Not 100% sure what you mean by partial matching, perhaps try it out.

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