wintheon

Library to discover, rank and inspect launchable Windows file entries.

Walks multiple sources, such as Desktop, Start Menu, and the Microsoft Store WindowsApps folder — or any source you provide — yielding typed entries with resolved target paths, shell icons, full file-version information metadata, and query-time relevance scoring.

crates.io · docs.rs

Wintheon APIs used: Gatherer with all three built-in sources at distinct priorities · WeightedEntryIteratorExt::sorted_by_score re-ranking every keystroke (per-entry MatchIndex cache) · FileEntry::icon + FileIcon::extract_icon_at for 64×64 RGBA · FileEntry::version_info for company / version / copyright badges · FileEntry::link_path for shell-correct launch targets.

Layered on top:

• Global Shift+Alt+Space hotkey via global-hotkey
• Frameless, always-on-top viewport
• Compact ↔ expanded resize on first keystroke (top edge stays put)
• Spotlight positioning anchored 120 px below screen top, horizontally centered
• ↑ / ↓ / Enter / Escape navigation, auto-focused search
• Color-coded origin chips, theme-aware card backgrounds
• On-disk RGBA cache under %TEMP% with mtime-header self-invalidation, mmap-backed reads (mmap-io)
• Background prewarm thread fills the cache at startup
• Lazy, visibility-gated texture upload at render time