Deskrule v2.92 with ES integration

[nikos]

updated deskrule will connect to Everything index for super-fast results. Use HELP > CHECK FOR UPDATES menu

Why would you want to use deskrule if you have ES installed?
* more convenient access to individual search properties
* find files quickly with ES and post-process them (e,g, refine search results with desktop detective etc)

for similar reasoning I will probably add everything integration for xplorer2 with next release -- although you can drag-drop ES results into an xplorer2s scrap container for this purpose too)

Experimental connection to EVERYTHING (a popular search engine) index. If you have Everything 1.5a or later installed (note this isn't the "stable" version) simple searches in deskrule will first check ES index to deliver fast results. Some provisos:

- All properties searched must be in the ES index. Usually name/size/date are ok, but for searching in file contents you must add contents in the index using Everything options.

- Most deskrule search properties work (if indexed), except enumerations and a few with special formatting (e.g. length/duration).

- You may get results from "hidden" folders (e.g Appdata), unless you add file Attributes property to ES search index.

- ES must be running, perhaps hidden in the taskbar (task notification area)

[Tuxman]

updated deskrule will connect to Everything index for super-fast results.

So DeskRule will grow the last missing checkmark ("Maintains separate search index (performance hit)", hooray) without you having to implement the feature yourself? Clever! Your comparison table, however, says that Everything does content searches slowly, so I assume that these super-fast results will also lack a certain level of "under the following circumstances"?

I see a pattern here.

[nikos]

I was thinking about the comparison table but still it is correct for the "stable" version of everything

[Kilmatead]

I will probably add everything integration for xplorer2 with next release

I'm putting this here just as a way of planting my flag on Everest before Nikos takes the credit by urinating all over my coat tails and covering my own scent in the yellow snow.

You'll note that despite that Kilmatead guy teaching Nikos everything he knows (in this case, literally), I didn't even get a thank you. This is called "becoming part of the furniture", which may or may not be complimentary. Probably not. But Kilmatead is a tough bastard who lives to fight another day! He will prevail in the end.

I thought you somehow integrated ES with xplorer2 via tc plugins... but obviously that's not possible.

"...but that's not possible"

Obviously.

Proof of concept: Video (3.7 MB)

[nikos]

sorry, thank you very much kilmatead for sharing your wisdom about ES integration

[Kilmatead]

You remember that girl in school, the one that looked just like Ally Sheedy in St. Elmo's Fire? With the 80's feathered hair, and eyes that stopped your heart?

Capturing your gaze from afar, she veritably seemed to float above the ground, oblivious to the lesser-creatures around her. And do you remember when you naïvely bared your soul to her in some blind desperate hope that she might look beyond your lowly station in life and embrace the wanton desires that had lain so untapped in both your souls until that point?

Except... she didn't believe you? And you know she didn't believe you by that lacklustre tone of voice women have when they're navigating that line between outright rejection and the cold "Eh, he's sweet a kid, but I could do better"?

And, years later, in that moment when the boy's pre-frontal cortex finally matures and surpasses that of the girl, you realise that it wasn't the rejection that so damaged your soul in later life (that was a lucky escape), it was really that subtle tone of voice that resonated like an E-minor chord, decimating, shattering, painting a masterpiece with the blood that continued to flow from the wound for decades afterward.

And that's where I continued to live, between the cold and the rejected, thriving with the unrecognised romantic guile of the emotionally damned. Creativity forever held captive by the girl who just didn't understand.

sorry, thank you very much kilmatead for sharing your wisdom

I went from merely being part of the furniture to being that awful ugly credenza that always manages to be in the way and provide the perfect target for stubbing your toe in the middle of the night. But since your wife's beloved Auntie-Betsy gave it to you as a grudging wedding re-gift, you have to keep it around in case the vile relation comes to visit unexpectedly.



It's a tough old life, being the afterthought.

<Tap><Tap> "Is this thing on?" <Crackling sound>

The Broken Wing Display of the Killdeer, which Wikipedia strangely labels the "Ungulate Display", is a great defensive ploy to use against your enemies. Vercingetorix in Caesar's Gallic Travelogue taught us that. Yeah, he spent years in prison and died a messy death on display in Rome - but hey, his spirit got the upper hand in the end.

"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" Ally Sheedy never knew what she started.

[nikos]

if i count the times i implemented your frivolous fetish xxx feature in xplorer2 just because you asked nicely, i'm sure you are indebted by miles

feeling a bit insecure lately?

[Tuxman]

if i count the times i implemented your frivolous fetish xxx feature in xplorer2 just because you asked nicely, i'm sure you are indebted by miles

I assume you won't recover for years from the fact that, thanks to other people's ideas...

As for substantial features (other than appearance) I am not sure. Here is YOUR chance to recommend something you like, or something you find in competitor program and you would like to see it in xplorer² too.

...the application with which you presumably [citation needed] make the most money, now has even more features that you can sell.

[Kilmatead]

...and when did I ever "ask nicely"? That's not how I remember things! I always had to

• badger and
  push
  and prod and
  shame
  humiliate
  humour

and rant and rave and more and more ad nauseam before you'd even THINK of donating a brain-cell or two to my ever-worthy and ALWAYS well thought-out causes.

Was e.e. cummings an insecure typesetter? Did M.C. Escher squeal with delight when he dropped his stairs on top of your head? Did Giovanni Battista Piranesi cackle manically when he trapped you in his imaginary prisons?

That's how I remember it. Yeah. "Always well thought-out causes". Yeah, that's me. All the way.

<Wiggles-bum-in-chair-with-great-self-importance>