Add the Command Palette module (#37908)
Windows Command Palette ("CmdPal") is the next iteration of PowerToys Run. With extensibility at its core, the Command Palette is your one-stop launcher to start _anything_.
By default, CmdPal is bound to <kbd>Win+Alt+Space</kbd>.


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This brings the current preview version of CmdPal into the upstream PowerToys repo. There are still lots of bugs to work out, but it's reached the state we're ready to start sharing it with the world. From here, we can further collaborate with the community on the features that are important, and ensuring that we've got a most robust API to enable developers to build whatever extensions they want.
Most of the built-in PT Run modules have already been ported to CmdPal's extension API. Those include:
* Installed apps
* Shell commands
* File search (powered by the indexer)
* Windows Registry search
* Web search
* Windows Terminal Profiles
* Windows Services
* Windows settings
There are a couple new extensions built-in
* You can now search for packages on `winget` and install them right from the palette. This also powers searching for extensions for the palette
* The calculator has an entirely new implementation. This is currently less feature complete than the original PT Run one - we're looking forward to updating it to be more complete for future ingestion in Windows
* "Bookmarks" allow you to save shortcuts to files, folders, and webpages as top-level commands in the palette.
We've got a bunch of other samples too, in this repo and elsewhere
### PowerToys specific notes
CmdPal will eventually graduate out of PowerToys to live as its own application, which is why it's implemented just a little differently than most other modules. Enabling CmdPal will install its `msix` package.
The CI was minorly changed to support CmdPal version numbers independent of PowerToys itself. It doesn't make sense for us to start CmdPal at v0.90, and in the future, we want to be able to rev CmdPal independently of PT itself.
Closes #3200, closes #3600, closes #7770, closes #34273, closes #36471, closes #20976, closes #14495
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TODOs et al
**Blocking:**
- [ ] Images and descriptions in Settings and OOBE need to be properly defined, as mentioned before
- [ ] Niels is on it
- [x] Doesn't start properly from PowerToys unless the fix PR is merged.
- https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/556 merged
- [x] I seem to lose focus a lot when I press on some limits, like between the search bar and the results.
- This is https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/427
- [x] Turned off an extension like Calculator and it was still working.
- Need to get rid of that toggle, it doesn't do anything currently
- [x] `ListViewModel.<FetchItems>` crash
- Pretty confident that was fixed in https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/553
**Not blocking / improvements:**
- Show the shortcut through settings, as mentioned before, or create a button that would open CmdPalette settings.
- When PowerToys starts, CmdPalette is always shown if enabled. That's weird when just starting PowerToys/ logging in to the computer with PowerToys auto-start activated. I think this should at least be a setting.
- Needing to double press a result for it to do the default action seems quirky. If one is already selected, I think just pressing should be enough for it to do the action.
- This is currently a setting, though we're thinking of changing the setting even more: https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/392
- There's no URI extension. Was surprised when typing a URL that it only proposed a web search.
- [x] There's no System commands extension. Was expecting to be able to quickly restart the computer by typing restart but it wasn't there.
- This is in PR https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/452
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Co-authored-by: Jordi Adoumie <jordiadoumie@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Mike Griese <zadjii@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl>
Co-authored-by: Michael Hawker <24302614+michael-hawker@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Stefan Markovic <57057282+stefansjfw@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Seraphima <zykovas91@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jaime Bernardo <jaime@janeasystems.com>
Co-authored-by: Kristen Schau <47155823+krschau@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Johnson <ericjohnson327@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ethan Fang <ethanfang@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Yu Leng (from Dev Box) <yuleng@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Clint Rutkas <clint@rutkas.com>
2025-03-19 03:39:57 -05:00
// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
// The Microsoft Corporation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
2025-07-15 12:21:44 -05:00
using Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.ViewModels ;
Add the Command Palette module (#37908)
Windows Command Palette ("CmdPal") is the next iteration of PowerToys Run. With extensibility at its core, the Command Palette is your one-stop launcher to start _anything_.
By default, CmdPal is bound to <kbd>Win+Alt+Space</kbd>.


----
This brings the current preview version of CmdPal into the upstream PowerToys repo. There are still lots of bugs to work out, but it's reached the state we're ready to start sharing it with the world. From here, we can further collaborate with the community on the features that are important, and ensuring that we've got a most robust API to enable developers to build whatever extensions they want.
Most of the built-in PT Run modules have already been ported to CmdPal's extension API. Those include:
* Installed apps
* Shell commands
* File search (powered by the indexer)
* Windows Registry search
* Web search
* Windows Terminal Profiles
* Windows Services
* Windows settings
There are a couple new extensions built-in
* You can now search for packages on `winget` and install them right from the palette. This also powers searching for extensions for the palette
* The calculator has an entirely new implementation. This is currently less feature complete than the original PT Run one - we're looking forward to updating it to be more complete for future ingestion in Windows
* "Bookmarks" allow you to save shortcuts to files, folders, and webpages as top-level commands in the palette.
We've got a bunch of other samples too, in this repo and elsewhere
### PowerToys specific notes
CmdPal will eventually graduate out of PowerToys to live as its own application, which is why it's implemented just a little differently than most other modules. Enabling CmdPal will install its `msix` package.
The CI was minorly changed to support CmdPal version numbers independent of PowerToys itself. It doesn't make sense for us to start CmdPal at v0.90, and in the future, we want to be able to rev CmdPal independently of PT itself.
Closes #3200, closes #3600, closes #7770, closes #34273, closes #36471, closes #20976, closes #14495
-----
TODOs et al
**Blocking:**
- [ ] Images and descriptions in Settings and OOBE need to be properly defined, as mentioned before
- [ ] Niels is on it
- [x] Doesn't start properly from PowerToys unless the fix PR is merged.
- https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/556 merged
- [x] I seem to lose focus a lot when I press on some limits, like between the search bar and the results.
- This is https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/427
- [x] Turned off an extension like Calculator and it was still working.
- Need to get rid of that toggle, it doesn't do anything currently
- [x] `ListViewModel.<FetchItems>` crash
- Pretty confident that was fixed in https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/553
**Not blocking / improvements:**
- Show the shortcut through settings, as mentioned before, or create a button that would open CmdPalette settings.
- When PowerToys starts, CmdPalette is always shown if enabled. That's weird when just starting PowerToys/ logging in to the computer with PowerToys auto-start activated. I think this should at least be a setting.
- Needing to double press a result for it to do the default action seems quirky. If one is already selected, I think just pressing should be enough for it to do the action.
- This is currently a setting, though we're thinking of changing the setting even more: https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/392
- There's no URI extension. Was surprised when typing a URL that it only proposed a web search.
- [x] There's no System commands extension. Was expecting to be able to quickly restart the computer by typing restart but it wasn't there.
- This is in PR https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/452
---------
Co-authored-by: joadoumie <98557455+joadoumie@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jordi Adoumie <jordiadoumie@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Mike Griese <zadjii@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl>
Co-authored-by: Michael Hawker <24302614+michael-hawker@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Stefan Markovic <57057282+stefansjfw@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Seraphima <zykovas91@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jaime Bernardo <jaime@janeasystems.com>
Co-authored-by: Kristen Schau <47155823+krschau@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Johnson <ericjohnson327@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ethan Fang <ethanfang@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Yu Leng (from Dev Box) <yuleng@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Clint Rutkas <clint@rutkas.com>
2025-03-19 03:39:57 -05:00
using Microsoft.CmdPal.UI.Deferred ;
using Microsoft.UI.Dispatching ;
using Microsoft.UI.Xaml ;
using Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls ;
using Windows.Foundation ;
namespace Microsoft.CmdPal.UI.Controls ;
/// <summary>
/// A helper control which takes an <see cref="IconSource"/> and creates the corresponding <see cref="IconElement"/>.
/// </summary>
public partial class IconBox : ContentControl
{
private readonly DispatcherQueue _queue = DispatcherQueue . GetForCurrentThread ( ) ;
/// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the <see cref="IconSource"/> to display within the <see cref="IconBox"/>. Overwritten, if <see cref="SourceKey"/> is used instead.
/// </summary>
public IconSource ? Source
{
get = > ( IconSource ? ) GetValue ( SourceProperty ) ;
set = > SetValue ( SourceProperty , value ) ;
}
// Using a DependencyProperty as the backing store for Source. This enables animation, styling, binding, etc...
public static readonly DependencyProperty SourceProperty =
DependencyProperty . Register ( nameof ( Source ) , typeof ( IconSource ) , typeof ( IconBox ) , new PropertyMetadata ( null , OnSourcePropertyChanged ) ) ;
/// <summary>
/// Gets or sets a value to use as the <see cref="SourceKey"/> to retrieve an <see cref="IconSource"/> to set as the <see cref="Source"/>.
/// </summary>
public object? SourceKey
{
get = > ( object? ) GetValue ( SourceKeyProperty ) ;
set = > SetValue ( SourceKeyProperty , value ) ;
}
// Using a DependencyProperty as the backing store for SourceKey. This enables animation, styling, binding, etc...
public static readonly DependencyProperty SourceKeyProperty =
DependencyProperty . Register ( nameof ( SourceKey ) , typeof ( object ) , typeof ( IconBox ) , new PropertyMetadata ( null , OnSourceKeyPropertyChanged ) ) ;
/// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the <see cref="SourceRequested"/> event handler to provide the value of the <see cref="IconSource"/> for the <see cref="Source"/> property from the provided <see cref="SourceKey"/>.
/// </summary>
public event TypedEventHandler < IconBox , SourceRequestedEventArgs > ? SourceRequested ;
private static void OnSourcePropertyChanged ( DependencyObject d , DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e )
{
if ( d is IconBox @this )
{
switch ( e . NewValue )
{
case null :
@this . Content = null ;
break ;
case FontIconSource fontIco :
fontIco . FontSize = double . IsNaN ( @this . Width ) ? @this . Height : @this . Width ;
// For inexplicable reasons, FontIconSource.CreateIconElement
// doesn't work, so do it ourselves
// TODO: File platform bug?
IconSourceElement elem = new ( )
{
IconSource = fontIco ,
} ;
@this . Content = elem ;
break ;
case IconSource source :
@this . Content = source . CreateIconElement ( ) ;
break ;
default :
throw new InvalidOperationException ( $"New value of {e.NewValue} is not of type IconSource." ) ;
}
}
}
private static void OnSourceKeyPropertyChanged ( DependencyObject d , DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e )
{
if ( d is IconBox @this )
{
if ( e . NewValue = = null )
{
@this . Source = null ;
}
else
{
// TODO GH #239 switch back when using the new MD text block
// _ = @this._queue.EnqueueAsync(() =>
@this . _queue . TryEnqueue ( new ( async ( ) = >
{
var requestedTheme = @this . ActualTheme ;
var eventArgs = new SourceRequestedEventArgs ( e . NewValue , requestedTheme ) ;
if ( @this . SourceRequested ! = null )
{
await @this . SourceRequested . InvokeAsync ( @this , eventArgs ) ;
// After the await:
// Is the icon we're looking up now, the one we still
// want to find? Since this IconBox might be used in a
// list virtualization situation, it's very possible we
// may have already been set to a new icon before we
// even got back from the await.
if ( eventArgs . Key ! = @this . SourceKey )
{
// If the requested icon has changed, then just bail
return ;
}
@this . Source = eventArgs . Value ;
// Here's a little lesson in trickery:
// Emoji are rendered just a bit bigger than Segoe Icons.
// Just enough bigger that they get clipped if you put
// them in a box at the same size.
//
// So, if the icon we get back was a font icon,
// and the glyph for that icon is NOT in the range of
// Segoe icons, then let's give the icon some extra space
@this . Padding = new Thickness ( 0 ) ;
IconDataViewModel ? iconData = null ;
if ( eventArgs . Key is IconDataViewModel )
{
iconData = eventArgs . Key as IconDataViewModel ;
}
else if ( eventArgs . Key is IconInfoViewModel info )
{
iconData = requestedTheme = = ElementTheme . Light ? info . Light : info . Dark ;
}
if ( iconData ! = null & &
@this . Source is FontIconSource )
{
if ( ! string . IsNullOrEmpty ( iconData . Icon ) & & iconData . Icon . Length < = 2 )
{
var ch = iconData . Icon [ 0 ] ;
// The range of MDL2 Icons isn't explicitly defined, but
// we're using this based off the table on:
// https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/style/segoe-ui-symbol-font
var isMDL2Icon = ch is > = ' \ uE700 ' and < = ' \ uF8FF ' ;
if ( ! isMDL2Icon )
{
@this . Padding = new Thickness ( - 4 ) ;
}
}
}
}
} ) ) ;
}
}
}
}