Switchyard

Windows file-association switchyard: snapshot, diff, icon lock, and room to grow into smarter routing.

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About The Project

Installers often rewrite open and icon together, so LibreOffice (and friends) can replace Office icons when they claim a type. Windows already keeps those jobs on separate tracks (shell\open\command vs DefaultIcon vs thumbnail ShellEx). Switchyard is the yard that watches the points: snapshot associations, notice hijacks, lock icons, restore what you chose — and later, optional smarter open routing without becoming a rude global default handler.

Naming

• Switchyard — product / brand (rail-yard metaphor: sort association tracks).

• File router — debranded role name for “send this file intent to the right handler.”

• App broker — role name for mediating between Shell intents and apps (crowded on Windows; use sparingly in prose, fine in architecture talk).

• SwitchBitch — easter egg / affectionate misnomer (switchyard help). Not the product name.

Depth lives in PLAN.adoc and docs/ as the product grows.

Built With

• Language

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• Platform

  • Windows (file associations / registry)

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• DUB and a D compiler (LDC or DMD)

• Windows

Build

dub build

Quick use

dub run -- show .txt .md
dub run -- snapshot --out yard.snap .docx .xlsx
dub run -- doctor

Roadmap

• Icon lock / restore

• Snapshot diff (status)

• SDL watchlist config

• Tray UI + About / debug dump

• Installer + winget before 1.0

See PLAN.adoc.

Changelog

Changelog

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.

Contact

Dev-Centr — github.com/dev-centr

Project Link: https://github.com/dev-centr/switchyard