[Run][Plugin Manager] Support Community / non-core plugins

[dewinterjack]

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?

[crutkas]

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.

[dewinterjack]

I’m 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 <C:\Program Files\PowerToys\modules\launcher\Plugins\Wox.Plugin.TimeChecker\plugin.json>

[dewinterjack]

I could try to contribute some plugin installation support if this hasn’t been looked into yet.

[crutkas]

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

[addrum]

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)

[ABS96]

Some of us would appreciate an instant translation plugin, like Gtranslate.

[ghost]

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.

[calania]

I would personally really like the ability to convert between units, for example, to convert from imperial to metric.

[drew-royster]

Lorem Ipsum Generator would be awesome

[Dhruva-Storz]

Would also be great to convert currencies

[eiis1000]

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.

[gtheys]

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?

[crutkas]

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

[Drabenstein]

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.

[dlgombert]

Devdocs or Zeal or something similar would be great. Maybe custom web search providers

[enricogior]

Adding a reference to https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/5273

[gmmedia]

I would love to see Steam, Clipboard History, Youtube Query and an integration for the markdown note-taking tool Obsidian.

[CWempe]

I would like to use Kitty. https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox.Plugin.Kitty

[Animeshz]

+1 I'd like to have a google/bing search plugin sort of g searchquery or b searchquery :)

[Icexist]

Since this seems to have become a feature request issue for plugins, I'd like to throw in a request for Everything which seems to have been implemented by Wox as well.

[elonzh]

support search devdocs

[mykhailopylyp]

@elonzh

support search devdocs

Create a separate issue for it so we can discuss it there.

[cobrabr]

Throwing in a request for a plugin to launch Control Panel applets (Sound, Device Manager, etc) directly from Run as well (kind of like Windows/Cortana search already does).

[SangNguyen2810]

I can not search the "add or remove programs". Could we add 1 more feature like that please? Thank you so much!

[niklasbuesing]

Any update on this?

[mykhailopylyp]

Any update on this?

Don't have a lot of updates on it. Currently, the only way is to include a plugin in this repository. We created a checklist for reviewing purposes. You can also use it as requirements for the new or ported from wox plugins.

[tchar]

Hello,

Is there any future plan to allow plugins in Python like Wox and not only C#/C++?

[mykhailopylyp]

Is there any future plan to allow plugins in Python like Wox and not only C#/C++?

@dedavis6797, I guess it is a post stabilization milestone.

[bwt615]

This is wild that this is not planned. If you guys were on uservoice this would be #1. This will be what builds a community around this tool.

Who is setting the strategy for this tool?

[crutkas]

Hi @bwt615. I'm one of those people. This has implications to officially support a model we're not currently ready to take on. Right now we're prioritizing other items. PT Run is actually fully plugin based so you could do this right now if you wanted to. Adding this style functionality formally has a lot of larger scale engineering efforts that would have to be done.

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/wiki/Roadmap is where we are currently thinking about. Don't worry, this is something that is top of mind for us.