Description

When using the Winget plugin to search for the Winget package 'bat' by sharkdp, the result appears towards the bottom of the list. This happens because there are many packages with names containing 'bat', such as Adobe Acrobat or authors name have bat in it, causing the desired package to be listed way further down, making it hard to find.

• Expected Behavior: The package 'bat' by sharkdp should appear at or near the top of the search results.

• Actual Behavior: The package 'bat' by sharkdp appears near the bottom of the search results.

• Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Open PowerToys Run.
  2. Activate the Winget plugin.
  3. Search for the package bat
  4. Observe the position of 'bat' in the search results.

• Environment:

  • Operating System: Windows 11
  • PowerToys Version: v0.82.0
  • Winget Plugin Version: v1.3.0

Screenshots or Logs

Hi,
This issue was mentioned a few times and i really tried to make it work.
But the error accours everytime, i tried putting the plugin at the location you mentioned in the Readme and also the location that is mentioned here PowerToysDoc
I also tried installing PowerToys in all possible ways (winget, msstore, .exe from Github)
I think this is a really handy plugin and would really like it to work.
I also attached my log if that helps. 2024-01-05.txt

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance!

Paul

The search results from the plugin seems to be missing a quite a bit of stuff when compared to the cli.

No firefox stable, only nightly

No discord stable, only Public Test Builds.

Typing in the ID e.g. "mozilla.firefox", also doesn't show anything

If the plugin is installed, powertoys run does not work at all.

Install and restart the PC, it shows Fail to initialize plugins.

I try to uninstall all plugins, noting, will install Winget plugin only, it shows.

PowerToys 0.79 WingetPlugin 1.2.3

BTW: Is there any plan about uninstall command by PowerToyRun?

It would be great to be able to launch an update of all the apps from the run bar :
"winget upgrade --all"

OhMyPosh latest version is 17.0.0 but the plugin says 9.5.0. Firefox is another example.

Maybe a option to choose the version would be nice.

I've downloaded the latest version 1.2.0, extracted and the folder copied to C:\Program Files\PowerToys\modules\launcher\Plugins.
Restarted PowerToys and I can't open the PowerRun functionality.
When I deleted the folder, restarted PowerToys, PowerRun still didn't work. I needed to disable it and enable it.
When I extracted this plugin again, restarted PowerToys, tried to disable and enable PowerRun, it still didn't work (windows didn't appear).
I've got custom shortcut to ALT+F2. Not sure if that's the problem.

It would be awesome to see this integrated with https://winget.run/ to be able to pull an up to date list of packages.
Either that or implement a similar polling of the winget package commits like how winget.run does.

https://github.com/winget-run/api/blob/master/src/server/ghService/update/updatePackageUtil.ts

Hello! I want this plugin to be auto-updatable. Can you pack it to MSIX package and register it in WinGet repository?

https://github.com/bostrot/PowerToysRunPluginWinget?tab=readme-ov-file#installation

Plugin loading fails after upgrading PowerToys to 0.75.1

Some files in the release zip archive, Winget.zip v1.1.0, is missing or unnecessary.

Missing:

• Images\Winget.dark.png
• Images\Winget.light.png

Unnecessary:

• PowerToys.Settings.UI.Lib.dll
• PowerToys.Settings.UI.Lib.pdb
• PowerToys.Interop.dll
• PowerToys.Interop.pdb
• PowerToys.Common.UI.dll
• PowerToys.Common.UI.pdb
• PowerToys.ManagedCommon.dll
• PowerToys.ManagedCommon.pdb
• PowerToys.ManagedTelemetry.dll
• PowerToys.ManagedTelemetry.pdb
• Ijwhost.dll
• backup_restore_settings.json

add to the plugin settings an option to toggle --disable-interactivity and --silent flag during the installation

I recently installed the PowerToys app from the Microsoft Store. However, upon attempting to add a plugin to the app's directory (C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys\PowerToys Run\Plugins), I encountered the following error:

The plugin functions correctly with the installer version but encounters issues when used with the Microsoft Store app.

Could you provide guidance or a workaround to enable the plugin's functionality with the Microsoft Store version of PowerToys?

When installing/uninstalling applications via the plugin, PowerToys needs to be restarted to reflect the correct state of the machine.

I'll guess that the result from winget is cached.

Repro:

1. Install Azure Developer CLI via the plugin
2. Search for azd
   • It does not look like Azure Developer CLI is installed

3. Restart PowerToys
4. Search for azd
   • Now Azure Developer CLI is installed

I installed the plugin a few weeks ago and it works fine. I recently updated PowerToys and it doesn't work anymore. I reinstalled, restarted etc. but it still doesn't work.

Instructions for installation states the path C:\Program Files\PowerToys\modules\launcher\Plugins but it's for the system install.

By default powertoys installs as a user and the path is $ENV:LOCALAPPDATA\PowerToys\modules\launcher\Plugins.

When extracting the contents of winget-powertoys-1.3.0.zip to "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\PowerToys Run\Plugins" (not %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\RunPlugins as the README states) and restarting PowerToys, I get the following error message.

"%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PowerToys\PowerToys Run\Plugins" appears to be the correct path for PowerToys Run plugins, as all the other plugins I've installed there work fine. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I can't quite fathom how "release.ps1" installs PowerToysRunPluginWinget. It appears to be intended to package PowerToysRunPluginWinget into a zip file after it's been built. Or at least that's what it seems like to me. I can't recall the last time I used 7-Zip's command line tool, if ever. But even when testing the "release.ps1", changing the various paths to match how I expect it might work, results in nothing happening (no files are extracted or compacted). This may be down to my not quite understanding the behavior of the overwrite mode or other the other switches for 7z.exe.

Anyway, I can't seem to install PowerToysRunPluginWinget and I don't know why. I'd appreciate some guidance, thank you.