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Configurable Priority for bult-in features

Open gaafiz opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

[Feature Request]

I really love the possibility to search for files and programs at once, but is sometime problematic. For example:

  • I search for "chr"
  • I expect to find chrome
  • Chrome is there but at 7th position
  • The first 6 positions are occupied by spare files that happen to contain chr inside their name

For me, in general, programs are more relevant than spare files and I would like to configure the priority of these two search results (like it happen for fallback web searches) to show first programs results.

The idea of prioritizing results can be extended to all features. Example:

shortcuts > programs > operating system settings > files

Let me know if sounds worthy and feasible :) P.S. In the meanwhile, is there a workaround to obtain the desired prioritized result?

gaafiz avatar May 25 '19 23:05 gaafiz

This seems like a good idea! I'm thinking of adding this to the next release. Thanks for your feedback!

In the meantime you could adjust the search engine treshold in the settings. Try decreasing the value. The lower this number the more precise has to be your search term. Maybe this helps?

oliverschwendener avatar Jun 06 '19 20:06 oliverschwendener

+1

Warden20 avatar Mar 11 '21 18:03 Warden20

Perhaps this could be controlled by drag'n'drop reordeing of the plugin list in settings. I have a similar issue where the top result shouldn't really be a browser bookmark as in the following case.

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ghost avatar Feb 03 '22 23:02 ghost