Hot Take Voidtools Everything Dark Theme

[lokamoka820]

I like Everything Search Engine and use it extensively on my machine almost daily, I have one problem with it, it is dark theme, I'm a dark theme person, and tried alternatives to Everything to replace it but I always back to Everything because it is gives me instant results, I know I can change the colors from the settings, but headers and menus will still white always, so I was looking again for an alternative to find that Everything developer working on version 1.5 that have a dark theme by default, it is still in alpha phase, but it will not interfere with the stable version, so you can use both, I'm using it for week now, and I didn't find any problem with it, so if you like to try it, here are the details:

Everything 1.5 Alpha will not interfere with your Everything 1.4 installation.
Everything 1.5 Alpha will be installed to C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a and will run in a 1.5a instance.
Import history, filters and bookmarks from Everything 1.4

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Installer:
Everything-1.5.0.1383a.x64-Setup.exe
Everything-1.5.0.1383a.x86-Setup.exe

Portable Zip:
Everything-1.5.0.1383a.x64.zip
Everything-1.5.0.1383a.x86.zip

Everything 1.5 Alpha - voidtools forum

 

[Bot]

Thanks for sharing this info! It's great to hear that Everything 1.5 Alpha has a default dark theme and doesn't interfere with the stable version. Your post will surely help other dark theme enthusiasts who use Everything Search Engine.

 

[bazang]

Everything developer working on version 1.5

The Void Tools developer has been working on version 1.5 for 3+ years. It was initially released in March 2021. He said he projects another couple of years before 1.5 alpha moves to beta. He did not do any work on it for 1 year after its release in March 2021. Subsequent development has not been consistent.

After 3+ years of "active" development it is still full of annoying bugs that a user cannot use or find a workaround. Go look at the discussions on the 1.5 forum.

 

[monkeylove]

I've been using it for months to avail of the dark mode feature, and have not been experiencing issues. Maybe it's because I didn't notice them; I just use it to search for files across different drives, and sometimes delete or rename groups of files.

 

[bazang]

I've been using it for months to avail of the dark mode feature, and have not been experiencing issues. Maybe it's because I didn't notice them; I just use it to search for files across different drives, and sometimes delete or rename groups of files.

Some users experience bugs while others do not with the same software on the same OS. This is just the way software reality works.

A bug need not be experienced by all or even the majority of users for it to be a real problem.

What I see happening with Everything is that the developer is getting older and his support for the freeware has slowly been eroding over the years. I would not be surprised if he just stops development all together within the next 5 to 10 years.

Macecraft's Winfindr would be a decent replacement, but like all freeware with $0 revenue you get what the publisher is willing to give you. The Macecraft developer released Winfindr, a flurry of bug reports were made, and he has not fixed any of them really. So people stumble upon it, read about it, get influenced that it is a good soft, then they install it only to find out afterwards that there are problems - that the user either accepts and keeps using it or they do not accept it and move on.

 

[lokamoka820]

The Void Tools developer has been working on version 1.5 for 3+ years. It was initially released in March 2021. He said he projects another couple of years before 1.5 alpha moves to beta. He did not do any work on it for 1 year after its release in March 2021. Subsequent development has not been consistent.

After 3+ years of "active" development it is still full of annoying bugs that a user cannot use or find a workaround. Go look at the discussions on the 1.5 forum.

Are you sure? Here is the change log for 2024 only, he updated it on a monthly basis:

Changes

• [1383] 17th June 2024
  • fixed a crash when indexing color representation.
  • improved sessions.
  • improved preview.
• [1382] 13th June 2024
  • fixed an issue with setting home columns.
• [1381] 13th June 2024
  • fixed an issue with fast rescan missing folders.
  • improved tabs.
  • improved sessions.
  • improved filters.
  • improved iFilter support.
• [1380] 7th June 2024
  • fixed a crash when gathering indexed values.
• [1379] 6th June 2024
  • improved sessions.
  • improved tabs.
  • improved reading properties.
  • improved reading content.
  • improved date syntax.
  • improved filters.
  • improved preview pane.
• [1378] 24th May 2024
  • improved sessions.
  • improved preview pane.
• [1377] 23rd May 2024
  • improved sessions.
  • improved preview pane.
• [1376] 16th May 2024
  • fixed a crash when searching for paths with more than 256 parents.
  • fixed a crash when gathering folder hashes.
  • fixed an issue with automatically removing excluded volumes.
  • improved property indexing.
  • improved preview pane.
  • added policy.ini
• [1375] 10th May 2024
  • fixed an issue with /copy
  • improved #eval:
• [1374] 9th May 2024
  • fixed an issue with the advanced renamer and substituting indexed properties.
  • fixed a focus issue when closing the findbar / quick findbar.
  • fixed an issue with opening the file list slot editor instead of the advanced search on F2.
  • improved sessions.
  • added support for multiple network indexes with different usernames and the same host.
  • added system date parsing support.
• [1373] 25th April 2024
  • fixed an issue with opening new searches with ctrl or shift.
  • fixed an issue with restoring window placement.
  • fixed an issue when temporarily omitting a result with mix files and folders enabled.
  • added experimental support for OleSetClipboard.
• [1372] 18th April 2024
  • fixed an issue with the Everything Service and handling incomplete IO.
  • fixed an issue with the Everything Service and handling stale journals.
  • fixed an issue with ISO8601 wildcards.
  • fixed an issue with finding new results when using formulas.
  • fixed an issue with distinct: missing the first item.
  • fixed an issue with open file dialog using the wrong extension.
  • fixed an issue with scanning links in the recycle bin with circular references.
  • fixed an issue with excluding volumes when the exclude list was disabled.
  • added sessions.
  • added support for Vorbis comments and QuickTime Metadata properties.
  • added tab title formatting.
  • added match path option to find and select.
  • added column colors
  • added open in new tab UI option.
  • added full support for html5 character entities.
  • improved temporary result omissions.
  • improved /copy
  • improved distinct:
  • improved preprocessor.
  • improved the bookmark sidebar.
  • increased regex character limit from 65,536 to 1,073,741,824.
• [1371] Mar 07 2024
  • fixed an issue with displaying property system properties.
  • fixed a crash with exactarentname:
  • improved changing between details and thumbnails from the statusbar.
  • added support for AddClipboardFormatListener.
• [1370] Mar 01 2024
  • fixed an issue with searching for N: and T: drives.
  • fixed an issue with Everything getting stuck in an indexing loop.
• [1369] Feb 29 2024
  • fixed an issue with search function parameters.
• [1368] Feb 29 2024
  • fixed a crash when closing the findbar and performing a quick find in another tab.
  • fixed an issue with using the property system in the advanced renamer.
  • fixed an issue with highlighting the stem and using regex in the advanced renamer.
  • fixed an issue with new windows showing offscreen.
  • fixed an issue with uninstalling plugins and cancelling the UAC prompt.
  • fixed an issue with jump to text in the folder sidebar.
  • fixed an issue with Everything getting stuck on startup when another instance was shutting down.
  • fixed an issue with updating the folder sidebar in an inactive tab.
  • fixed an issue with exporting and copying property values with new lines.
  • fixed an issue with showing duplicated filter/bookmark/option keyboard shortcuts.
  • added iso-8601 wildcard date/time search support.
  • added support for loading Everything.db files as file lists.
  • improved monitoring NTFS volumes.
  • Improved formulas and preprocessor.
  • improved the findbar when using tabs.
  • improved dupe lines.
  • improved support for cloud files.
  • improved icon rendering when using scaling.
  • improved appearance of tabs and header.
  • improved optional result list margin.
• [1367] Feb 08 2024
  • fixed a crash with regex recursion.
  • fixed a crash when calculating folder hashes.
  • fixed a crash with -create-filelist
  • fixed an issue with formulas and folders.
  • fixed an issue with updating file sizes.
  • fixed an issue with copying as TSV.
  • fixed an issue with new tabs not setting up the home search correctly.
  • fixed an issue with inadvertently activating a tab while drag-dropping over the tab bar.
  • fixed an issue with pasting mulitple lines of text into the search box.
  • fixed an issue with the result list focus being lost.
  • improved column scaling.
  • improved status bar parts.
  • improved responsiveness when closing a tab.
  • improved selecting multiple filters.
  • improved eml support.
  • improved preview handling.
  • improved updating date accessed.
  • improved exporting.
  • added alignment options to regmatch columns and custom columns.
  • added next/previous tab commands.
  • added Date Deleted and Original Location properties.
• [1366] Jan 09 2024
  • fixed a memory leak in Everything Service.
  • improved Formula assignment performance.
  • improved exit responsiveness.
• [1365] Jan 05 2024
  • fixed a crash when performing a file operation.
  • fixed a crash when closing a window with tabs.
• [1364] Jan 04 2024
  • fixed an issue with calculating the total selection size when renaming over an existing file.
  • fixed a memory leak when monitoring NTFS volumes.
  • improved monitoring NTFS volumes.
  • added presets to the Advanced Renamer.

 

[bazang]

Are you sure? Here is the change log for 2024 only, he updated it on a monthly basis:

You understand that the vast majority of the "changes" are minor or trivial, right?

1.5 Alpha was released in early 2021. Going on 4 years ago. And yet a bunch of things that have been reported have not been fixed. This all goes back to the developer not fixing stuff nor maintaining the pace of major releases of years past.

Since 2018 the developer, Void, has slowed-down. Prior to 2018 he was making a major release of Everything every year except for the period of 2010-2012.

Go onto the Everything forums and ask Void what the future of Everything is. Void will tell you.

 

[lokamoka820]

You understand that the vast majority of the "changes" are minor or trivial, right?

1.5 Alpha was released in early 2021. Going on 4 years ago. And yet a bunch of things that have been reported have not been fixed. This all goes back to the developer not fixing stuff nor maintaining the pace of major releases of years past.

Since 2018 the developer, Void, has slowed-down. Prior to 2018 he was making a major release of Everything every year except for the period of 2010-2012.

Go onto the Everything forums and ask Void what the future of Everything is. Void will tell you.

It is mentioned in the page that it is just UI still under development, features are complete and stable, I don't think it was needing anything more than dark theme.