@Midas
This is a good find, thanks for submitting it.
I did a brief testing of
Blaze and although unfinished,
not very stable (the indexer-
BlazeIndexer.exe, crashed several times when I tried to rebuild the index manually) and abandoned long ago (the last version-
0.5.6.10 Beta, was released on
2010-04-05) in my opinion it is more than a decent launcher, especially when compared to
Electron monstrosities like
Cerebro,
Hain,
Zazu (in fact Electron made me love .NET).
Blaze is really portable,
data and settings files (
cmd.db,
index.db,
user.ini) are saved in
User sub-folder inside program folder. But being a .NET program
Blaze is not stealth, creating
LOG files in AppData (
Blaze.exe.log -
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v2.0\UsageLogs\Blaze.exe.log and
BlazeIndexer.exe.log -
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v2.0\UsageLogs\BlazeIndexer.exe.log).
Blaze has excellent documentation and for me it is a shame that it had been abandoned before it reached a stable release.
Screens
Blaze -
program in action:
Blaze -
settings - general:
Blaze -
settings - indexer:
Blaze -
settings - plugins:
Blaze -
assistant:
Blaze -
tray control:
Links
Softpedia -
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Lau ... laze.shtml
Softpedia -
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-S ... laze.shtml
AlternativeTo -
https://alternativeto.net/software/blaze/
When a small open source project is abandoned almost always there is no one to take it over.