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CmdPal: Add context commands for pinning nested commands (#45673) _targets #45572_ This change allows our contact menu factory to actually create and add additional context menu commands for pinning commands to the top level. Now for any command provider built with the latest SDK that return subcommands with an ID, we will add additional context menu commands that allows you to pin that command to the top level. <img width="540" height="181" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6c2cfe3c-4143-44d1-9308-bfc71db4c842" /> <img width="729" height="317" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4ff75c9f-1f35-4c1e-a03e-6fab5cbab423" /> related to https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/45191 related to https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/45201 This PR notably does not remove pinning from the apps extension. I thought that made sense to do as a follow-up PR for the sake of reviewability. --- description from #45676 which was merged into this Removes the code that the apps provider was using to support pinning apps to the top level list of commands. Now the all apps provider just uses the global support for pinning commands to the top level. This does have the side effect of removing the separation of pinned apps from unpinned apps on the All Apps page. However, we all pretty much agree that wasn't a particularly widely used feature, and it's safe to remove. With this, we can finally call this issue done 🎉 closes https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/45191
2026-02-26 10:09:17 -06:00
// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
// The Microsoft Corporation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
using System.Collections.Immutable;
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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 System.Collections.Specialized;
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
using System.Diagnostics;
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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 CommunityToolkit.Mvvm.Messaging;
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
2025-07-10 03:44:08 +02:00
using ManagedCommon;
using Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.Helpers;
using Microsoft.CmdPal.Common.Text;
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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.Ext.Apps;
using Microsoft.CmdPal.Ext.Apps.Programs;
[CmdPal] Optimise MainListPage's results display by merging already-sorted lists (#44126) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR replaces the current LINQ-based results compilation query of combining, sorting and filtering the four result sources with a 3-way merge operation plus a final append. It provides a performance increase as well as a significant reduction in allocations. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [ ] Closes: #xxx <!-- - [ ] Closes: #yyy (add separate lines for additional resolved issues) --> - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments The existing code: 1. Limits the number of apps returned to a pre-defined maximum. 2. Sorts the apps list. 3. Appends filtered items, scored fallback items and the apps list together. 4. Sorts the three lists based on their score. 5. Appends the non-scored fallback items, with empty items excluded. 6. Selects just the `Item` from each. 7. Creates an array from the enumerable. ```csharp if (_filteredApps?.Count > 0) { limitedApps = _filteredApps.OrderByDescending(s => s.Score).Take(_appResultLimit).ToList(); } var items = Enumerable.Empty<Scored<IListItem>>() .Concat(_filteredItems is not null ? _filteredItems : []) .Concat(_scoredFallbackItems is not null ? _scoredFallbackItems : []) .Concat(limitedApps) .OrderByDescending(o => o.Score) // Add fallback items post-sort so they are always at the end of the list // and eventually ordered based on user preference .Concat(_fallbackItems is not null ? _fallbackItems.Where(w => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(w.Item.Title)) : []) .Select(s => s.Item) .ToArray(); ``` We can exploit the fact that each of the three 'scored' lists are pre-ordered, and replace the query with a 3-way merge and final append of the non-scored fallback items. By pre-sizing the results array we can avoid all the extra allocations of the LINQ-based solution. ### Proof of pre-ordering In `UpdateSearchText`, each of the lists is defined by calling `ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores`: ```csharp // Produce a list of everything that matches the current filter. _filteredItems = [.. ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFilteredItems ?? [], SearchText, scoreItem)]; ``` ```csharp _scoredFallbackItems = ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFallbacksForScoring ?? [], SearchText, scoreItem); ``` ```csharp var scoredApps = ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newApps, SearchText, scoreItem); ... _filteredApps = [.. scoredApps]; ``` In `FilterListWithScores`, the results are ordered by score: ```csharp var scores = items .Select(li => new Scored<T>() { Item = li, Score = scoreFunction(query, li) }) .Where(score => score.Score > 0) .OrderByDescending(score => score.Score); ``` (This also makes the existing `OrderByDescending()` for `_filteredApps` before the LINQ query redundant.) ### K-way merge Since the results are pre-sorted, we can do a direct merge in linear time. This is what the new `MainListPageResultFactory`'s `Create` achieves. As the lists may be different sizes, the routine does a 3-way merge, followed by a 2-way merge and a single list drain to finish. Each element is only visited once. ### Benchmarks A separate benchmark project is [here](https://github.com/daverayment/MainListBench), written with Benchmark.net. The project compares the current LINQ-based solution against: 1. An Array-based algorithm which pre-assigns a results array and still sorts the 3 scored sets of results. This shows a naive non-LINQ solution which is still _O(n log n)_ because of the sort. 2. The k-way merge, which is described above. _O(n)_ for both time and space complexity. 3. A heap merge algorithm, which uses a priority queue instead of tracking each of the lists separately. (This is _O(n log k)_ in terms of time complexity and _O(n + k)_ for space.) Care is taken to ensure stable sorting of items. When preparing the benchmark data, items with identical scores are assigned to confirm each algorithm performs identically to the LINQ `OrderBy` approach, which performs a stable sort. Results show that the merge performs best in terms of both runtime performance and allocations, sometimes by a significant margin. Compared to the LINQ approach, merge runs 400%+ faster and with at most ~20% of the allocations: <img width="1135" height="556" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9f9d3932-1592-49d6-8a07-4ea3ba7a0cc5" /> <img width="1149" height="553" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ae9e9e0a-b255-4c1a-af4b-e791dea80fa4" /> See here for all charts and raw stats from the run: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y2mmWe8dfpbLxF_eqPbEGvaItmqp6HLfSp-rw99hzWg/edit?usp=sharing ### Cons 1. Existing performance is not currently an issue. This could be seen as a premature optimisation. 2. The new code introduces an inherent contract between the results compilation routine and the lists, i.e. that they must be sorted. This PR was really for research and learning more about CmdPal (and a bit of algorithm practice because it's Advent of Code time), so please feel free to reject if you feel the cons outweigh the pros. <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed - Added unit tests to exercise the new code, which confirm that the specific ordering is preserved, and the filtering and pre-trimming of the apps list is performed as before. - Existing non-UI unit tests run. NB: I _could not_ run any UI Tests on my system and just got an early bail-out each time. - Manual testing in (non-AOT) Release mode.
2025-12-08 21:01:56 +00:00
using Microsoft.CmdPal.UI.ViewModels.Commands;
using Microsoft.CmdPal.UI.ViewModels.Messages;
CmdPal: Hide search box on content pages [experiment] (#41479) ## Summary of the Pull Request CmdPal now displays the search box only on pages that derive from ListPage. On ContentPage (forms, etc.), the search box is hidden. - Moves keyboard shortcut handling from SearchBox to ShellPage so shortcuts are always handled. - Keeps the search box hidden/disabled to preserve layout metrics. - Refines focus management to prevent focus jumps during navigation. - For ContentPage page's content gains focus automatically (not just form inputs, but now markdown content as well - so you can scroll immediately, for example). - Adds accessibility (a11y) tweaks: when navigating to content pages without a visible search box, sets an explicit focus target so screen readers announce a meaningful element. Screen reader will now announce navigation to the page. - Adds a title to the main list page - "Home". https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f60d0826-df1f-468e-8e41-0266cd27878b <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #38967 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2025-09-26 23:00:53 +02:00
using Microsoft.CmdPal.UI.ViewModels.Properties;
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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.CommandPalette.Extensions;
using Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit;
namespace Microsoft.CmdPal.UI.ViewModels.MainPage;
/// <summary>
/// This class encapsulates the data we load from built-in providers and extensions to use within the same extension-UI system for a <see cref="ListPage"/>.
/// TODO: Need to think about how we structure/interop for the page -> section -> item between the main setup, the extensions, and our viewmodels.
/// </summary>
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
public sealed partial class MainListPage : DynamicListPage,
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
IRecipient<ClearSearchMessage>,
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
IRecipient<UpdateFallbackItemsMessage>, IDisposable
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
{
private readonly TopLevelCommandManager _tlcManager;
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
2025-12-22 17:08:15 -06:00
private readonly AliasManager _aliasManager;
private readonly SettingsModel _settings;
private readonly AppStateModel _appStateModel;
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
private readonly ScoringFunction<IListItem> _scoringFunction;
private readonly ScoringFunction<IListItem> _fallbackScoringFunction;
private readonly IFuzzyMatcherProvider _fuzzyMatcherProvider;
CmdPal: Lightning-fast mode (#45764) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR unlocks lightning-fast mode for Command Palette: - Hides visual and motion distractions when updating the result list: - Ensures the first interactable result item is selected as early as possible after the result list is updated, reducing flashing and blinking caused by the selection highlight moving around. - Removes the list item selection indicator animation (unfortunately by removing the pill altogether for now) and prevents it from temporarily appearing on other items as the selection moves. - Adds a new "Results" section header above the home page results when no other section is present. - This ensures the first item on the home page has consistent visuals and styling, preventing offsets and excessive visual changes when elements are replaced in place. - Improves update performance and container reuse: - Fixes the `removed` output parameter in `ListHelper.UpdateInPlace` to only include items that were actually removed (items that were merely moved to a different position should not be reported as removed). - Adds unit tests to prevent regression. - Updates `ListHelper.UpdateInPlace` for `ObservableCollection` to use `Move` instead of `Remove`/`Add`, and avoids `Clear` to prevent `ListView` resets (which force recreation of all item containers and are expensive). - Adds a simple cache for list page item view models to reduce unnecessary recreation during forward incremental search. - `ListViewModel` and `FetchItems` have no notion of item lifetime or incremental search phase, so the cache intentionally remains simple rather than clever. - Updates ListPage templates to make them a little lighter: - Tag template uses OneTime, instead of OneWay - since Tag is immutable - Replaces ItemsControl with ItemsRepeater for Tag list on list items - Increases the debounce for showing the details pane and adds a debounce for hiding it. This improves performance when browsing the list and prevents the details pane animation from bouncing left and right ## Pictures? Moving! https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/36428d20-cf46-4321-83c0-d94d6d4a2299 <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #44407 - [x] Closes: #45691
2026-02-26 13:17:34 +01:00
// Stable separator instances so that the VM cache and InPlaceUpdateList
// recognise them across successive GetItems() calls
private readonly Separator _resultsSeparator = new(Resources.results);
private readonly Separator _fallbacksSeparator = new(Resources.fallbacks);
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
private RoScored<IListItem>[]? _filteredItems;
private RoScored<IListItem>[]? _filteredApps;
[CmdPal] Optimise MainListPage's results display by merging already-sorted lists (#44126) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR replaces the current LINQ-based results compilation query of combining, sorting and filtering the four result sources with a 3-way merge operation plus a final append. It provides a performance increase as well as a significant reduction in allocations. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [ ] Closes: #xxx <!-- - [ ] Closes: #yyy (add separate lines for additional resolved issues) --> - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments The existing code: 1. Limits the number of apps returned to a pre-defined maximum. 2. Sorts the apps list. 3. Appends filtered items, scored fallback items and the apps list together. 4. Sorts the three lists based on their score. 5. Appends the non-scored fallback items, with empty items excluded. 6. Selects just the `Item` from each. 7. Creates an array from the enumerable. ```csharp if (_filteredApps?.Count > 0) { limitedApps = _filteredApps.OrderByDescending(s => s.Score).Take(_appResultLimit).ToList(); } var items = Enumerable.Empty<Scored<IListItem>>() .Concat(_filteredItems is not null ? _filteredItems : []) .Concat(_scoredFallbackItems is not null ? _scoredFallbackItems : []) .Concat(limitedApps) .OrderByDescending(o => o.Score) // Add fallback items post-sort so they are always at the end of the list // and eventually ordered based on user preference .Concat(_fallbackItems is not null ? _fallbackItems.Where(w => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(w.Item.Title)) : []) .Select(s => s.Item) .ToArray(); ``` We can exploit the fact that each of the three 'scored' lists are pre-ordered, and replace the query with a 3-way merge and final append of the non-scored fallback items. By pre-sizing the results array we can avoid all the extra allocations of the LINQ-based solution. ### Proof of pre-ordering In `UpdateSearchText`, each of the lists is defined by calling `ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores`: ```csharp // Produce a list of everything that matches the current filter. _filteredItems = [.. ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFilteredItems ?? [], SearchText, scoreItem)]; ``` ```csharp _scoredFallbackItems = ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFallbacksForScoring ?? [], SearchText, scoreItem); ``` ```csharp var scoredApps = ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newApps, SearchText, scoreItem); ... _filteredApps = [.. scoredApps]; ``` In `FilterListWithScores`, the results are ordered by score: ```csharp var scores = items .Select(li => new Scored<T>() { Item = li, Score = scoreFunction(query, li) }) .Where(score => score.Score > 0) .OrderByDescending(score => score.Score); ``` (This also makes the existing `OrderByDescending()` for `_filteredApps` before the LINQ query redundant.) ### K-way merge Since the results are pre-sorted, we can do a direct merge in linear time. This is what the new `MainListPageResultFactory`'s `Create` achieves. As the lists may be different sizes, the routine does a 3-way merge, followed by a 2-way merge and a single list drain to finish. Each element is only visited once. ### Benchmarks A separate benchmark project is [here](https://github.com/daverayment/MainListBench), written with Benchmark.net. The project compares the current LINQ-based solution against: 1. An Array-based algorithm which pre-assigns a results array and still sorts the 3 scored sets of results. This shows a naive non-LINQ solution which is still _O(n log n)_ because of the sort. 2. The k-way merge, which is described above. _O(n)_ for both time and space complexity. 3. A heap merge algorithm, which uses a priority queue instead of tracking each of the lists separately. (This is _O(n log k)_ in terms of time complexity and _O(n + k)_ for space.) Care is taken to ensure stable sorting of items. When preparing the benchmark data, items with identical scores are assigned to confirm each algorithm performs identically to the LINQ `OrderBy` approach, which performs a stable sort. Results show that the merge performs best in terms of both runtime performance and allocations, sometimes by a significant margin. Compared to the LINQ approach, merge runs 400%+ faster and with at most ~20% of the allocations: <img width="1135" height="556" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9f9d3932-1592-49d6-8a07-4ea3ba7a0cc5" /> <img width="1149" height="553" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ae9e9e0a-b255-4c1a-af4b-e791dea80fa4" /> See here for all charts and raw stats from the run: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y2mmWe8dfpbLxF_eqPbEGvaItmqp6HLfSp-rw99hzWg/edit?usp=sharing ### Cons 1. Existing performance is not currently an issue. This could be seen as a premature optimisation. 2. The new code introduces an inherent contract between the results compilation routine and the lists, i.e. that they must be sorted. This PR was really for research and learning more about CmdPal (and a bit of algorithm practice because it's Advent of Code time), so please feel free to reject if you feel the cons outweigh the pros. <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed - Added unit tests to exercise the new code, which confirm that the specific ordering is preserved, and the filtering and pre-trimming of the apps list is performed as before. - Existing non-UI unit tests run. NB: I _could not_ run any UI Tests on my system and just got an early bail-out each time. - Manual testing in (non-AOT) Release mode.
2025-12-08 21:01:56 +00:00
// Keep as IEnumerable for deferred execution. Fallback item titles are updated
// asynchronously, so scoring must happen lazily when GetItems is called.
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
private IEnumerable<RoScored<IListItem>>? _scoredFallbackItems;
private IEnumerable<RoScored<IListItem>>? _fallbackItems;
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
2025-07-10 03:44:08 +02:00
private bool _includeApps;
private bool _filteredItemsIncludesApps;
private int AppResultLimit => AllAppsCommandProvider.TopLevelResultLimit;
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
private InterlockedBoolean _refreshRunning;
private InterlockedBoolean _refreshRequested;
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
private CancellationTokenSource? _cancellationTokenSource;
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
public MainListPage(
TopLevelCommandManager topLevelCommandManager,
SettingsModel settings,
AliasManager aliasManager,
AppStateModel appStateModel,
IFuzzyMatcherProvider fuzzyMatcherProvider)
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
{
CmdPal: Hide search box on content pages [experiment] (#41479) ## Summary of the Pull Request CmdPal now displays the search box only on pages that derive from ListPage. On ContentPage (forms, etc.), the search box is hidden. - Moves keyboard shortcut handling from SearchBox to ShellPage so shortcuts are always handled. - Keeps the search box hidden/disabled to preserve layout metrics. - Refines focus management to prevent focus jumps during navigation. - For ContentPage page's content gains focus automatically (not just form inputs, but now markdown content as well - so you can scroll immediately, for example). - Adds accessibility (a11y) tweaks: when navigating to content pages without a visible search box, sets an explicit focus target so screen readers announce a meaningful element. Screen reader will now announce navigation to the page. - Adds a title to the main list page - "Home". https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f60d0826-df1f-468e-8e41-0266cd27878b <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #38967 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2025-09-26 23:00:53 +02:00
Title = Resources.builtin_home_name;
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
Icon = IconHelpers.FromRelativePath("Assets\\StoreLogo.scale-200.png");
PlaceholderText = Properties.Resources.builtin_main_list_page_searchbar_placeholder;
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
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_settings = settings;
_aliasManager = aliasManager;
_appStateModel = appStateModel;
_tlcManager = topLevelCommandManager;
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
_fuzzyMatcherProvider = fuzzyMatcherProvider;
_scoringFunction = (in query, item) => ScoreTopLevelItem(in query, item, _appStateModel.RecentCommands, _fuzzyMatcherProvider.Current);
_fallbackScoringFunction = (in _, item) => ScoreFallbackItem(item, _settings.FallbackRanks);
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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_tlcManager.PropertyChanged += TlcManager_PropertyChanged;
_tlcManager.TopLevelCommands.CollectionChanged += Commands_CollectionChanged;
// The all apps page will kick off a BG thread to start loading apps.
// We just want to know when it is done.
var allApps = AllAppsCommandProvider.Page;
allApps.PropChanged += (s, p) =>
{
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
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if (p.PropertyName == nameof(allApps.IsLoading))
{
IsLoading = ActuallyLoading();
}
};
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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WeakReferenceMessenger.Default.Register<ClearSearchMessage>(this);
WeakReferenceMessenger.Default.Register<UpdateFallbackItemsMessage>(this);
settings.SettingsChanged += SettingsChangedHandler;
HotReloadSettings(settings);
_includeApps = _tlcManager.IsProviderActive(AllAppsCommandProvider.WellKnownId);
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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IsLoading = true;
}
private void TlcManager_PropertyChanged(object? sender, System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
if (e.PropertyName == nameof(IsLoading))
{
IsLoading = ActuallyLoading();
}
}
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
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private void Commands_CollectionChanged(object? sender, NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
_includeApps = _tlcManager.IsProviderActive(AllAppsCommandProvider.WellKnownId);
if (_includeApps != _filteredItemsIncludesApps)
{
ReapplySearchInBackground();
}
else
{
RaiseItemsChanged();
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
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}
}
private void ReapplySearchInBackground()
{
_refreshRequested.Set();
if (!_refreshRunning.Set())
{
return;
}
_ = Task.Run(RunRefreshLoop);
}
private void RunRefreshLoop()
{
try
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
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{
do
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
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{
_refreshRequested.Clear();
lock (_tlcManager.TopLevelCommands)
{
if (_filteredItemsIncludesApps == _includeApps)
{
break;
}
}
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
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var currentSearchText = SearchText;
UpdateSearchText(currentSearchText, currentSearchText);
}
while (_refreshRequested.Value);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Logger.LogError("Failed to reload search", e);
}
finally
{
_refreshRunning.Clear();
if (_refreshRequested.Value && _refreshRunning.Set())
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
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{
_ = Task.Run(RunRefreshLoop);
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
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Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
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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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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[CmdPal] Optimise MainListPage's results display by merging already-sorted lists (#44126) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR replaces the current LINQ-based results compilation query of combining, sorting and filtering the four result sources with a 3-way merge operation plus a final append. It provides a performance increase as well as a significant reduction in allocations. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [ ] Closes: #xxx <!-- - [ ] Closes: #yyy (add separate lines for additional resolved issues) --> - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments The existing code: 1. Limits the number of apps returned to a pre-defined maximum. 2. Sorts the apps list. 3. Appends filtered items, scored fallback items and the apps list together. 4. Sorts the three lists based on their score. 5. Appends the non-scored fallback items, with empty items excluded. 6. Selects just the `Item` from each. 7. Creates an array from the enumerable. ```csharp if (_filteredApps?.Count > 0) { limitedApps = _filteredApps.OrderByDescending(s => s.Score).Take(_appResultLimit).ToList(); } var items = Enumerable.Empty<Scored<IListItem>>() .Concat(_filteredItems is not null ? _filteredItems : []) .Concat(_scoredFallbackItems is not null ? _scoredFallbackItems : []) .Concat(limitedApps) .OrderByDescending(o => o.Score) // Add fallback items post-sort so they are always at the end of the list // and eventually ordered based on user preference .Concat(_fallbackItems is not null ? _fallbackItems.Where(w => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(w.Item.Title)) : []) .Select(s => s.Item) .ToArray(); ``` We can exploit the fact that each of the three 'scored' lists are pre-ordered, and replace the query with a 3-way merge and final append of the non-scored fallback items. By pre-sizing the results array we can avoid all the extra allocations of the LINQ-based solution. ### Proof of pre-ordering In `UpdateSearchText`, each of the lists is defined by calling `ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores`: ```csharp // Produce a list of everything that matches the current filter. _filteredItems = [.. ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFilteredItems ?? [], SearchText, scoreItem)]; ``` ```csharp _scoredFallbackItems = ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFallbacksForScoring ?? [], SearchText, scoreItem); ``` ```csharp var scoredApps = ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newApps, SearchText, scoreItem); ... _filteredApps = [.. scoredApps]; ``` In `FilterListWithScores`, the results are ordered by score: ```csharp var scores = items .Select(li => new Scored<T>() { Item = li, Score = scoreFunction(query, li) }) .Where(score => score.Score > 0) .OrderByDescending(score => score.Score); ``` (This also makes the existing `OrderByDescending()` for `_filteredApps` before the LINQ query redundant.) ### K-way merge Since the results are pre-sorted, we can do a direct merge in linear time. This is what the new `MainListPageResultFactory`'s `Create` achieves. As the lists may be different sizes, the routine does a 3-way merge, followed by a 2-way merge and a single list drain to finish. Each element is only visited once. ### Benchmarks A separate benchmark project is [here](https://github.com/daverayment/MainListBench), written with Benchmark.net. The project compares the current LINQ-based solution against: 1. An Array-based algorithm which pre-assigns a results array and still sorts the 3 scored sets of results. This shows a naive non-LINQ solution which is still _O(n log n)_ because of the sort. 2. The k-way merge, which is described above. _O(n)_ for both time and space complexity. 3. A heap merge algorithm, which uses a priority queue instead of tracking each of the lists separately. (This is _O(n log k)_ in terms of time complexity and _O(n + k)_ for space.) Care is taken to ensure stable sorting of items. When preparing the benchmark data, items with identical scores are assigned to confirm each algorithm performs identically to the LINQ `OrderBy` approach, which performs a stable sort. Results show that the merge performs best in terms of both runtime performance and allocations, sometimes by a significant margin. Compared to the LINQ approach, merge runs 400%+ faster and with at most ~20% of the allocations: <img width="1135" height="556" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9f9d3932-1592-49d6-8a07-4ea3ba7a0cc5" /> <img width="1149" height="553" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ae9e9e0a-b255-4c1a-af4b-e791dea80fa4" /> See here for all charts and raw stats from the run: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y2mmWe8dfpbLxF_eqPbEGvaItmqp6HLfSp-rw99hzWg/edit?usp=sharing ### Cons 1. Existing performance is not currently an issue. This could be seen as a premature optimisation. 2. The new code introduces an inherent contract between the results compilation routine and the lists, i.e. that they must be sorted. This PR was really for research and learning more about CmdPal (and a bit of algorithm practice because it's Advent of Code time), so please feel free to reject if you feel the cons outweigh the pros. <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed - Added unit tests to exercise the new code, which confirm that the specific ordering is preserved, and the filtering and pre-trimming of the apps list is performed as before. - Existing non-UI unit tests run. NB: I _could not_ run any UI Tests on my system and just got an early bail-out each time. - Manual testing in (non-AOT) Release mode.
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lock (_tlcManager.TopLevelCommands)
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
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[CmdPal] Optimise MainListPage's results display by merging already-sorted lists (#44126) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR replaces the current LINQ-based results compilation query of combining, sorting and filtering the four result sources with a 3-way merge operation plus a final append. It provides a performance increase as well as a significant reduction in allocations. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [ ] Closes: #xxx <!-- - [ ] Closes: #yyy (add separate lines for additional resolved issues) --> - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments The existing code: 1. Limits the number of apps returned to a pre-defined maximum. 2. Sorts the apps list. 3. Appends filtered items, scored fallback items and the apps list together. 4. Sorts the three lists based on their score. 5. Appends the non-scored fallback items, with empty items excluded. 6. Selects just the `Item` from each. 7. Creates an array from the enumerable. ```csharp if (_filteredApps?.Count > 0) { limitedApps = _filteredApps.OrderByDescending(s => s.Score).Take(_appResultLimit).ToList(); } var items = Enumerable.Empty<Scored<IListItem>>() .Concat(_filteredItems is not null ? _filteredItems : []) .Concat(_scoredFallbackItems is not null ? _scoredFallbackItems : []) .Concat(limitedApps) .OrderByDescending(o => o.Score) // Add fallback items post-sort so they are always at the end of the list // and eventually ordered based on user preference .Concat(_fallbackItems is not null ? _fallbackItems.Where(w => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(w.Item.Title)) : []) .Select(s => s.Item) .ToArray(); ``` We can exploit the fact that each of the three 'scored' lists are pre-ordered, and replace the query with a 3-way merge and final append of the non-scored fallback items. By pre-sizing the results array we can avoid all the extra allocations of the LINQ-based solution. ### Proof of pre-ordering In `UpdateSearchText`, each of the lists is defined by calling `ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores`: ```csharp // Produce a list of everything that matches the current filter. _filteredItems = [.. ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFilteredItems ?? [], SearchText, scoreItem)]; ``` ```csharp _scoredFallbackItems = ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFallbacksForScoring ?? [], SearchText, scoreItem); ``` ```csharp var scoredApps = ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newApps, SearchText, scoreItem); ... _filteredApps = [.. scoredApps]; ``` In `FilterListWithScores`, the results are ordered by score: ```csharp var scores = items .Select(li => new Scored<T>() { Item = li, Score = scoreFunction(query, li) }) .Where(score => score.Score > 0) .OrderByDescending(score => score.Score); ``` (This also makes the existing `OrderByDescending()` for `_filteredApps` before the LINQ query redundant.) ### K-way merge Since the results are pre-sorted, we can do a direct merge in linear time. This is what the new `MainListPageResultFactory`'s `Create` achieves. As the lists may be different sizes, the routine does a 3-way merge, followed by a 2-way merge and a single list drain to finish. Each element is only visited once. ### Benchmarks A separate benchmark project is [here](https://github.com/daverayment/MainListBench), written with Benchmark.net. The project compares the current LINQ-based solution against: 1. An Array-based algorithm which pre-assigns a results array and still sorts the 3 scored sets of results. This shows a naive non-LINQ solution which is still _O(n log n)_ because of the sort. 2. The k-way merge, which is described above. _O(n)_ for both time and space complexity. 3. A heap merge algorithm, which uses a priority queue instead of tracking each of the lists separately. (This is _O(n log k)_ in terms of time complexity and _O(n + k)_ for space.) Care is taken to ensure stable sorting of items. When preparing the benchmark data, items with identical scores are assigned to confirm each algorithm performs identically to the LINQ `OrderBy` approach, which performs a stable sort. Results show that the merge performs best in terms of both runtime performance and allocations, sometimes by a significant margin. Compared to the LINQ approach, merge runs 400%+ faster and with at most ~20% of the allocations: <img width="1135" height="556" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9f9d3932-1592-49d6-8a07-4ea3ba7a0cc5" /> <img width="1149" height="553" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ae9e9e0a-b255-4c1a-af4b-e791dea80fa4" /> See here for all charts and raw stats from the run: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y2mmWe8dfpbLxF_eqPbEGvaItmqp6HLfSp-rw99hzWg/edit?usp=sharing ### Cons 1. Existing performance is not currently an issue. This could be seen as a premature optimisation. 2. The new code introduces an inherent contract between the results compilation routine and the lists, i.e. that they must be sorted. This PR was really for research and learning more about CmdPal (and a bit of algorithm practice because it's Advent of Code time), so please feel free to reject if you feel the cons outweigh the pros. <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed - Added unit tests to exercise the new code, which confirm that the specific ordering is preserved, and the filtering and pre-trimming of the apps list is performed as before. - Existing non-UI unit tests run. NB: I _could not_ run any UI Tests on my system and just got an early bail-out each time. - Manual testing in (non-AOT) Release mode.
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// Either return the top-level commands (no search text), or the merged and
// filtered results.
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
2025-12-22 17:08:15 -06:00
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(SearchText))
{
CmdPal: Lightning-fast mode (#45764) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR unlocks lightning-fast mode for Command Palette: - Hides visual and motion distractions when updating the result list: - Ensures the first interactable result item is selected as early as possible after the result list is updated, reducing flashing and blinking caused by the selection highlight moving around. - Removes the list item selection indicator animation (unfortunately by removing the pill altogether for now) and prevents it from temporarily appearing on other items as the selection moves. - Adds a new "Results" section header above the home page results when no other section is present. - This ensures the first item on the home page has consistent visuals and styling, preventing offsets and excessive visual changes when elements are replaced in place. - Improves update performance and container reuse: - Fixes the `removed` output parameter in `ListHelper.UpdateInPlace` to only include items that were actually removed (items that were merely moved to a different position should not be reported as removed). - Adds unit tests to prevent regression. - Updates `ListHelper.UpdateInPlace` for `ObservableCollection` to use `Move` instead of `Remove`/`Add`, and avoids `Clear` to prevent `ListView` resets (which force recreation of all item containers and are expensive). - Adds a simple cache for list page item view models to reduce unnecessary recreation during forward incremental search. - `ListViewModel` and `FetchItems` have no notion of item lifetime or incremental search phase, so the cache intentionally remains simple rather than clever. - Updates ListPage templates to make them a little lighter: - Tag template uses OneTime, instead of OneWay - since Tag is immutable - Replaces ItemsControl with ItemsRepeater for Tag list on list items - Increases the debounce for showing the details pane and adds a debounce for hiding it. This improves performance when browsing the list and prevents the details pane animation from bouncing left and right ## Pictures? Moving! https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/36428d20-cf46-4321-83c0-d94d6d4a2299 <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #44407 - [x] Closes: #45691
2026-02-26 13:17:34 +01:00
var allCommands = _tlcManager.TopLevelCommands;
// First pass: count eligible commands
var eligibleCount = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < allCommands.Count; i++)
{
var cmd = allCommands[i];
if (!cmd.IsFallback && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(cmd.Title))
{
eligibleCount++;
}
}
if (eligibleCount == 0)
{
return [];
}
// +1 for the separator
var result = new IListItem[eligibleCount + 1];
result[0] = _resultsSeparator;
// Second pass: populate
var writeIndex = 1;
for (var i = 0; i < allCommands.Count; i++)
{
var cmd = allCommands[i];
if (!cmd.IsFallback && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(cmd.Title))
{
result[writeIndex++] = cmd;
}
}
return result;
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
2025-12-22 17:08:15 -06:00
}
else
{
var validScoredFallbacks = _scoredFallbackItems?
.Where(s => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(s.Item.Title))
.ToList();
var validFallbacks = _fallbackItems?
.Where(s => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(s.Item.Title))
.ToList();
return MainListPageResultFactory.Create(
[CmdPal] Optimise MainListPage's results display by merging already-sorted lists (#44126) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR replaces the current LINQ-based results compilation query of combining, sorting and filtering the four result sources with a 3-way merge operation plus a final append. It provides a performance increase as well as a significant reduction in allocations. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [ ] Closes: #xxx <!-- - [ ] Closes: #yyy (add separate lines for additional resolved issues) --> - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments The existing code: 1. Limits the number of apps returned to a pre-defined maximum. 2. Sorts the apps list. 3. Appends filtered items, scored fallback items and the apps list together. 4. Sorts the three lists based on their score. 5. Appends the non-scored fallback items, with empty items excluded. 6. Selects just the `Item` from each. 7. Creates an array from the enumerable. ```csharp if (_filteredApps?.Count > 0) { limitedApps = _filteredApps.OrderByDescending(s => s.Score).Take(_appResultLimit).ToList(); } var items = Enumerable.Empty<Scored<IListItem>>() .Concat(_filteredItems is not null ? _filteredItems : []) .Concat(_scoredFallbackItems is not null ? _scoredFallbackItems : []) .Concat(limitedApps) .OrderByDescending(o => o.Score) // Add fallback items post-sort so they are always at the end of the list // and eventually ordered based on user preference .Concat(_fallbackItems is not null ? _fallbackItems.Where(w => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(w.Item.Title)) : []) .Select(s => s.Item) .ToArray(); ``` We can exploit the fact that each of the three 'scored' lists are pre-ordered, and replace the query with a 3-way merge and final append of the non-scored fallback items. By pre-sizing the results array we can avoid all the extra allocations of the LINQ-based solution. ### Proof of pre-ordering In `UpdateSearchText`, each of the lists is defined by calling `ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores`: ```csharp // Produce a list of everything that matches the current filter. _filteredItems = [.. ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFilteredItems ?? [], SearchText, scoreItem)]; ``` ```csharp _scoredFallbackItems = ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFallbacksForScoring ?? [], SearchText, scoreItem); ``` ```csharp var scoredApps = ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newApps, SearchText, scoreItem); ... _filteredApps = [.. scoredApps]; ``` In `FilterListWithScores`, the results are ordered by score: ```csharp var scores = items .Select(li => new Scored<T>() { Item = li, Score = scoreFunction(query, li) }) .Where(score => score.Score > 0) .OrderByDescending(score => score.Score); ``` (This also makes the existing `OrderByDescending()` for `_filteredApps` before the LINQ query redundant.) ### K-way merge Since the results are pre-sorted, we can do a direct merge in linear time. This is what the new `MainListPageResultFactory`'s `Create` achieves. As the lists may be different sizes, the routine does a 3-way merge, followed by a 2-way merge and a single list drain to finish. Each element is only visited once. ### Benchmarks A separate benchmark project is [here](https://github.com/daverayment/MainListBench), written with Benchmark.net. The project compares the current LINQ-based solution against: 1. An Array-based algorithm which pre-assigns a results array and still sorts the 3 scored sets of results. This shows a naive non-LINQ solution which is still _O(n log n)_ because of the sort. 2. The k-way merge, which is described above. _O(n)_ for both time and space complexity. 3. A heap merge algorithm, which uses a priority queue instead of tracking each of the lists separately. (This is _O(n log k)_ in terms of time complexity and _O(n + k)_ for space.) Care is taken to ensure stable sorting of items. When preparing the benchmark data, items with identical scores are assigned to confirm each algorithm performs identically to the LINQ `OrderBy` approach, which performs a stable sort. Results show that the merge performs best in terms of both runtime performance and allocations, sometimes by a significant margin. Compared to the LINQ approach, merge runs 400%+ faster and with at most ~20% of the allocations: <img width="1135" height="556" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9f9d3932-1592-49d6-8a07-4ea3ba7a0cc5" /> <img width="1149" height="553" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ae9e9e0a-b255-4c1a-af4b-e791dea80fa4" /> See here for all charts and raw stats from the run: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y2mmWe8dfpbLxF_eqPbEGvaItmqp6HLfSp-rw99hzWg/edit?usp=sharing ### Cons 1. Existing performance is not currently an issue. This could be seen as a premature optimisation. 2. The new code introduces an inherent contract between the results compilation routine and the lists, i.e. that they must be sorted. This PR was really for research and learning more about CmdPal (and a bit of algorithm practice because it's Advent of Code time), so please feel free to reject if you feel the cons outweigh the pros. <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed - Added unit tests to exercise the new code, which confirm that the specific ordering is preserved, and the filtering and pre-trimming of the apps list is performed as before. - Existing non-UI unit tests run. NB: I _could not_ run any UI Tests on my system and just got an early bail-out each time. - Manual testing in (non-AOT) Release mode.
2025-12-08 21:01:56 +00:00
_filteredItems,
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
2025-12-22 17:08:15 -06:00
validScoredFallbacks,
[CmdPal] Optimise MainListPage's results display by merging already-sorted lists (#44126) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR replaces the current LINQ-based results compilation query of combining, sorting and filtering the four result sources with a 3-way merge operation plus a final append. It provides a performance increase as well as a significant reduction in allocations. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [ ] Closes: #xxx <!-- - [ ] Closes: #yyy (add separate lines for additional resolved issues) --> - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments The existing code: 1. Limits the number of apps returned to a pre-defined maximum. 2. Sorts the apps list. 3. Appends filtered items, scored fallback items and the apps list together. 4. Sorts the three lists based on their score. 5. Appends the non-scored fallback items, with empty items excluded. 6. Selects just the `Item` from each. 7. Creates an array from the enumerable. ```csharp if (_filteredApps?.Count > 0) { limitedApps = _filteredApps.OrderByDescending(s => s.Score).Take(_appResultLimit).ToList(); } var items = Enumerable.Empty<Scored<IListItem>>() .Concat(_filteredItems is not null ? _filteredItems : []) .Concat(_scoredFallbackItems is not null ? _scoredFallbackItems : []) .Concat(limitedApps) .OrderByDescending(o => o.Score) // Add fallback items post-sort so they are always at the end of the list // and eventually ordered based on user preference .Concat(_fallbackItems is not null ? _fallbackItems.Where(w => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(w.Item.Title)) : []) .Select(s => s.Item) .ToArray(); ``` We can exploit the fact that each of the three 'scored' lists are pre-ordered, and replace the query with a 3-way merge and final append of the non-scored fallback items. By pre-sizing the results array we can avoid all the extra allocations of the LINQ-based solution. ### Proof of pre-ordering In `UpdateSearchText`, each of the lists is defined by calling `ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores`: ```csharp // Produce a list of everything that matches the current filter. _filteredItems = [.. ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFilteredItems ?? [], SearchText, scoreItem)]; ``` ```csharp _scoredFallbackItems = ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFallbacksForScoring ?? [], SearchText, scoreItem); ``` ```csharp var scoredApps = ListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newApps, SearchText, scoreItem); ... _filteredApps = [.. scoredApps]; ``` In `FilterListWithScores`, the results are ordered by score: ```csharp var scores = items .Select(li => new Scored<T>() { Item = li, Score = scoreFunction(query, li) }) .Where(score => score.Score > 0) .OrderByDescending(score => score.Score); ``` (This also makes the existing `OrderByDescending()` for `_filteredApps` before the LINQ query redundant.) ### K-way merge Since the results are pre-sorted, we can do a direct merge in linear time. This is what the new `MainListPageResultFactory`'s `Create` achieves. As the lists may be different sizes, the routine does a 3-way merge, followed by a 2-way merge and a single list drain to finish. Each element is only visited once. ### Benchmarks A separate benchmark project is [here](https://github.com/daverayment/MainListBench), written with Benchmark.net. The project compares the current LINQ-based solution against: 1. An Array-based algorithm which pre-assigns a results array and still sorts the 3 scored sets of results. This shows a naive non-LINQ solution which is still _O(n log n)_ because of the sort. 2. The k-way merge, which is described above. _O(n)_ for both time and space complexity. 3. A heap merge algorithm, which uses a priority queue instead of tracking each of the lists separately. (This is _O(n log k)_ in terms of time complexity and _O(n + k)_ for space.) Care is taken to ensure stable sorting of items. When preparing the benchmark data, items with identical scores are assigned to confirm each algorithm performs identically to the LINQ `OrderBy` approach, which performs a stable sort. Results show that the merge performs best in terms of both runtime performance and allocations, sometimes by a significant margin. Compared to the LINQ approach, merge runs 400%+ faster and with at most ~20% of the allocations: <img width="1135" height="556" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9f9d3932-1592-49d6-8a07-4ea3ba7a0cc5" /> <img width="1149" height="553" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ae9e9e0a-b255-4c1a-af4b-e791dea80fa4" /> See here for all charts and raw stats from the run: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y2mmWe8dfpbLxF_eqPbEGvaItmqp6HLfSp-rw99hzWg/edit?usp=sharing ### Cons 1. Existing performance is not currently an issue. This could be seen as a premature optimisation. 2. The new code introduces an inherent contract between the results compilation routine and the lists, i.e. that they must be sorted. This PR was really for research and learning more about CmdPal (and a bit of algorithm practice because it's Advent of Code time), so please feel free to reject if you feel the cons outweigh the pros. <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed - Added unit tests to exercise the new code, which confirm that the specific ordering is preserved, and the filtering and pre-trimming of the apps list is performed as before. - Existing non-UI unit tests run. NB: I _could not_ run any UI Tests on my system and just got an early bail-out each time. - Manual testing in (non-AOT) Release mode.
2025-12-08 21:01:56 +00:00
_filteredApps,
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
2025-12-22 17:08:15 -06:00
validFallbacks,
CmdPal: Lightning-fast mode (#45764) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR unlocks lightning-fast mode for Command Palette: - Hides visual and motion distractions when updating the result list: - Ensures the first interactable result item is selected as early as possible after the result list is updated, reducing flashing and blinking caused by the selection highlight moving around. - Removes the list item selection indicator animation (unfortunately by removing the pill altogether for now) and prevents it from temporarily appearing on other items as the selection moves. - Adds a new "Results" section header above the home page results when no other section is present. - This ensures the first item on the home page has consistent visuals and styling, preventing offsets and excessive visual changes when elements are replaced in place. - Improves update performance and container reuse: - Fixes the `removed` output parameter in `ListHelper.UpdateInPlace` to only include items that were actually removed (items that were merely moved to a different position should not be reported as removed). - Adds unit tests to prevent regression. - Updates `ListHelper.UpdateInPlace` for `ObservableCollection` to use `Move` instead of `Remove`/`Add`, and avoids `Clear` to prevent `ListView` resets (which force recreation of all item containers and are expensive). - Adds a simple cache for list page item view models to reduce unnecessary recreation during forward incremental search. - `ListViewModel` and `FetchItems` have no notion of item lifetime or incremental search phase, so the cache intentionally remains simple rather than clever. - Updates ListPage templates to make them a little lighter: - Tag template uses OneTime, instead of OneWay - since Tag is immutable - Replaces ItemsControl with ItemsRepeater for Tag list on list items - Increases the debounce for showing the details pane and adds a debounce for hiding it. This improves performance when browsing the list and prevents the details pane animation from bouncing left and right ## Pictures? Moving! https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/36428d20-cf46-4321-83c0-d94d6d4a2299 <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #44407 - [x] Closes: #45691
2026-02-26 13:17:34 +01:00
_resultsSeparator,
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CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
2025-12-22 17:08:15 -06:00
}
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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private void ClearResults()
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_filteredItems = null;
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}
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
public override void UpdateSearchText(string oldSearch, string newSearch)
{
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
var stopwatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
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_cancellationTokenSource?.Cancel();
_cancellationTokenSource?.Dispose();
_cancellationTokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource();
var token = _cancellationTokenSource.Token;
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
// Handle changes to the filter text here
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(SearchText))
{
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
2025-12-22 17:08:15 -06:00
var aliases = _aliasManager;
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
if (aliases.CheckAlias(newSearch))
{
if (_filteredItemsIncludesApps != _includeApps)
{
lock (_tlcManager.TopLevelCommands)
{
_filteredItemsIncludesApps = _includeApps;
ClearResults();
}
}
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
return;
}
}
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
var commands = _tlcManager.TopLevelCommands;
lock (commands)
{
CmdPal: Update special fallbacks separately from the other fallbacks (#42289) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR introduces a hotfix that updates special fallback items separately from the rest. This allows the loop handling special fallback items to finish faster, ensuring they are not delayed by other fallback items. As a result, calculator and run fallback items will be more readily available to users. This partially solves #42286 for special fallback items. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [ ] Related to: #42286 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2025-10-10 17:58:42 +02:00
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
// prefilter fallbacks
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
2025-12-22 17:08:15 -06:00
var globalFallbacks = _settings.GetGlobalFallbacks();
var specialFallbacks = new List<TopLevelViewModel>(globalFallbacks.Length);
CmdPal: Update special fallbacks separately from the other fallbacks (#42289) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR introduces a hotfix that updates special fallback items separately from the rest. This allows the loop handling special fallback items to finish faster, ensuring they are not delayed by other fallback items. As a result, calculator and run fallback items will be more readily available to users. This partially solves #42286 for special fallback items. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [ ] Related to: #42286 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2025-10-10 17:58:42 +02:00
var commonFallbacks = new List<TopLevelViewModel>();
foreach (var s in commands)
{
if (!s.IsFallback)
{
continue;
}
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
2025-12-22 17:08:15 -06:00
if (globalFallbacks.Contains(s.Id))
CmdPal: Update special fallbacks separately from the other fallbacks (#42289) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR introduces a hotfix that updates special fallback items separately from the rest. This allows the loop handling special fallback items to finish faster, ensuring they are not delayed by other fallback items. As a result, calculator and run fallback items will be more readily available to users. This partially solves #42286 for special fallback items. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [ ] Related to: #42286 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
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{
specialFallbacks.Add(s);
}
else
{
commonFallbacks.Add(s);
}
}
// start update of fallbacks; update special fallbacks separately,
// so they can finish faster
UpdateFallbacks(SearchText, specialFallbacks, token);
UpdateFallbacks(SearchText, commonFallbacks, token);
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
// Cleared out the filter text? easy. Reset _filteredItems, and bail out.
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(newSearch))
{
_filteredItemsIncludesApps = _includeApps;
ClearResults();
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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RaiseItemsChanged(commands.Count);
return;
}
// If the new string doesn't start with the old string, then we can't
// re-use previous results. Reset _filteredItems, and keep er moving.
if (!newSearch.StartsWith(oldSearch, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase))
{
ClearResults();
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
}
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
2025-07-10 03:44:08 +02:00
// If the internal state has changed, reset _filteredItems to reset the list.
if (_filteredItemsIncludesApps != _includeApps)
{
ClearResults();
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
}
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
2025-07-10 03:44:08 +02:00
}
var newFilteredItems = Enumerable.Empty<IListItem>();
var newFallbacks = Enumerable.Empty<IListItem>();
var newApps = Enumerable.Empty<IListItem>();
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
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if (_filteredItems is not null)
{
newFilteredItems = _filteredItems.Select(s => s.Item);
}
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
if (_filteredApps is not null)
{
newApps = _filteredApps.Select(s => s.Item);
}
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
if (_fallbackItems is not null)
{
newFallbacks = _fallbackItems.Select(s => s.Item);
}
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
// If we don't have any previous filter results to work with, start
// with a list of all our commands & apps.
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
if (!newFilteredItems.Any() && !newApps.Any())
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
{
newFilteredItems = commands.Where(s => !s.IsFallback);
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
// Fallbacks are always included in the list, even if they
// don't match the search text. But we don't want to
// consider them when filtering the list.
CmdPal: Update special fallbacks separately from the other fallbacks (#42289) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR introduces a hotfix that updates special fallback items separately from the rest. This allows the loop handling special fallback items to finish faster, ensuring they are not delayed by other fallback items. As a result, calculator and run fallback items will be more readily available to users. This partially solves #42286 for special fallback items. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [ ] Related to: #42286 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2025-10-10 17:58:42 +02:00
newFallbacks = commonFallbacks;
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
2025-07-10 03:44:08 +02:00
_filteredItemsIncludesApps = _includeApps;
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
2025-07-10 03:44:08 +02:00
if (_includeApps)
{
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
var allNewApps = AllAppsCommandProvider.Page.GetItems().Cast<AppListItem>().ToList();
// We need to remove pinned apps from allNewApps so they don't show twice.
CmdPal: Add context commands for pinning nested commands (#45673) _targets #45572_ This change allows our contact menu factory to actually create and add additional context menu commands for pinning commands to the top level. Now for any command provider built with the latest SDK that return subcommands with an ID, we will add additional context menu commands that allows you to pin that command to the top level. <img width="540" height="181" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6c2cfe3c-4143-44d1-9308-bfc71db4c842" /> <img width="729" height="317" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4ff75c9f-1f35-4c1e-a03e-6fab5cbab423" /> related to https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/45191 related to https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/45201 This PR notably does not remove pinning from the apps extension. I thought that made sense to do as a follow-up PR for the sake of reviewability. --- description from #45676 which was merged into this Removes the code that the apps provider was using to support pinning apps to the top level list of commands. Now the all apps provider just uses the global support for pinning commands to the top level. This does have the side effect of removing the separation of pinned apps from unpinned apps on the All Apps page. However, we all pretty much agree that wasn't a particularly widely used feature, and it's safe to remove. With this, we can finally call this issue done 🎉 closes https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/45191
2026-02-26 10:09:17 -06:00
// Pinned app command IDs are stored in ProviderSettings.PinnedCommandIds.
_settings.ProviderSettings.TryGetValue(AllAppsCommandProvider.WellKnownId, out var providerSettings);
var pinnedCommandIds = providerSettings?.PinnedCommandIds;
CmdPal: Add context commands for pinning nested commands (#45673) _targets #45572_ This change allows our contact menu factory to actually create and add additional context menu commands for pinning commands to the top level. Now for any command provider built with the latest SDK that return subcommands with an ID, we will add additional context menu commands that allows you to pin that command to the top level. <img width="540" height="181" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6c2cfe3c-4143-44d1-9308-bfc71db4c842" /> <img width="729" height="317" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4ff75c9f-1f35-4c1e-a03e-6fab5cbab423" /> related to https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/45191 related to https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/45201 This PR notably does not remove pinning from the apps extension. I thought that made sense to do as a follow-up PR for the sake of reviewability. --- description from #45676 which was merged into this Removes the code that the apps provider was using to support pinning apps to the top level list of commands. Now the all apps provider just uses the global support for pinning commands to the top level. This does have the side effect of removing the separation of pinned apps from unpinned apps on the All Apps page. However, we all pretty much agree that wasn't a particularly widely used feature, and it's safe to remove. With this, we can finally call this issue done 🎉 closes https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/45191
2026-02-26 10:09:17 -06:00
if (pinnedCommandIds is not null && pinnedCommandIds.Count > 0)
{
CmdPal: Add context commands for pinning nested commands (#45673) _targets #45572_ This change allows our contact menu factory to actually create and add additional context menu commands for pinning commands to the top level. Now for any command provider built with the latest SDK that return subcommands with an ID, we will add additional context menu commands that allows you to pin that command to the top level. <img width="540" height="181" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6c2cfe3c-4143-44d1-9308-bfc71db4c842" /> <img width="729" height="317" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4ff75c9f-1f35-4c1e-a03e-6fab5cbab423" /> related to https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/45191 related to https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/45201 This PR notably does not remove pinning from the apps extension. I thought that made sense to do as a follow-up PR for the sake of reviewability. --- description from #45676 which was merged into this Removes the code that the apps provider was using to support pinning apps to the top level list of commands. Now the all apps provider just uses the global support for pinning commands to the top level. This does have the side effect of removing the separation of pinned apps from unpinned apps on the All Apps page. However, we all pretty much agree that wasn't a particularly widely used feature, and it's safe to remove. With this, we can finally call this issue done 🎉 closes https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/45191
2026-02-26 10:09:17 -06:00
newApps = allNewApps.Where(li => li.Command != null && !pinnedCommandIds.Contains(li.Command.Id));
}
else
{
newApps = allNewApps;
}
Prevent apps from appearing in top-level search when Installed apps extension is disabled (#40132) <!-- Enter a brief description/summary of your PR here. What does it fix/what does it change/how was it tested (even manually, if necessary)? --> ## Summary of the Pull Request Prevents installed applications from appearing in the top-level search when Installed Apps extension is disabled. Previously, application commands were still returned in the global search results even when the *Installed Apps* extension was turned off. To match user expectations, the search now respects the extension’s enabled state. - Added `IsActive` property to `CommandProviderWrapper` to indicate whether the provider is both valid and enabled by the user in the settings. - Updated `MainListPage` to verify that the provider for `AllApps` is active before including apps in filtered results. <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] **Closes:** #39937 - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [x] **Dev docs:** nothing to update - [x] **New binaries:** none - [x] **Documentation updated:** nothing to update <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed Verified that the Installed app entries are shown in the top-level search only when the Installed apps extension is enabled. Verified that turning the Installed apps extension on or off has an immediate effect, and that the behavior persists after an application restart.
2025-07-10 03:44:08 +02:00
}
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
}
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
var searchQuery = _fuzzyMatcherProvider.Current.PrecomputeQuery(SearchText);
// Produce a list of everything that matches the current filter.
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
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_filteredItems = InternalListHelpers.FilterListWithScores(newFilteredItems, searchQuery, _scoringFunction);
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
2025-12-22 17:08:15 -06:00
IEnumerable<IListItem> newFallbacksForScoring = commands.Where(s => s.IsFallback && globalFallbacks.Contains(s.Id));
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
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_scoredFallbackItems = InternalListHelpers.FilterListWithScores(newFallbacksForScoring, searchQuery, _scoringFunction);
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
_fallbackItems = InternalListHelpers.FilterListWithScores<IListItem>(newFallbacks ?? [], searchQuery, _fallbackScoringFunction);
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
// Produce a list of filtered apps with the appropriate limit
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
if (newApps.Any())
{
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
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_filteredApps = InternalListHelpers.FilterListWithScores(newApps, searchQuery, _scoringFunction);
if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
}
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
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var filterDoneTimestamp = stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds;
Logger.LogDebug($"Filter with '{newSearch}' in {filterDoneTimestamp}ms");
RaiseItemsChanged();
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
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var listPageUpdatedTimestamp = stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds;
Logger.LogDebug($"Render items with '{newSearch}' in {listPageUpdatedTimestamp}ms /d {listPageUpdatedTimestamp - filterDoneTimestamp}ms");
stopwatch.Stop();
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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}
}
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
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private void UpdateFallbacks(string newSearch, IReadOnlyList<TopLevelViewModel> commands, CancellationToken token)
{
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
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_ = Task.Run(
() =>
{
var needsToUpdate = false;
foreach (var command in commands)
{
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
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if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
var changedVisibility = command.SafeUpdateFallbackTextSynchronous(newSearch);
needsToUpdate = needsToUpdate || changedVisibility;
}
if (needsToUpdate)
{
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
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if (token.IsCancellationRequested)
{
return;
}
RaiseItemsChanged();
}
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
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},
token);
}
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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private bool ActuallyLoading()
{
var allApps = AllAppsCommandProvider.Page;
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
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return allApps.IsLoading || _tlcManager.IsLoading;
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
}
// Almost verbatim ListHelpers.ScoreListItem, but also accounting for the
// fact that we want fallback handlers down-weighted, so that they don't
// _always_ show up first.
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
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internal static int ScoreTopLevelItem(
in FuzzyQuery query,
IListItem topLevelOrAppItem,
IRecentCommandsManager history,
IPrecomputedFuzzyMatcher precomputedFuzzyMatcher)
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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{
var title = topLevelOrAppItem.Title;
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(title))
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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{
return 0;
}
var isFallback = false;
var isAliasSubstringMatch = false;
var isAliasMatch = false;
var id = IdForTopLevelOrAppItem(topLevelOrAppItem);
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
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FuzzyTarget? extensionDisplayNameTarget = null;
if (topLevelOrAppItem is TopLevelViewModel topLevel)
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
{
isFallback = topLevel.IsFallback;
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
extensionDisplayNameTarget = topLevel.GetExtensionNameTarget(precomputedFuzzyMatcher);
if (topLevel.HasAlias)
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
{
var alias = topLevel.AliasText;
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
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isAliasMatch = alias == query.Original;
isAliasSubstringMatch = isAliasMatch || alias.StartsWith(query.Original, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase);
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
}
}
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
// Handle whitespace query separately - FuzzySearch doesn't handle it well
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(query.Original))
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
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CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
return ScoreWhitespaceQuery(query.Original, title, topLevelOrAppItem.Subtitle, isFallback);
}
// Get precomputed targets
var (titleTarget, subtitleTarget) = topLevelOrAppItem is IPrecomputedListItem precomputedItem
? (precomputedItem.GetTitleTarget(precomputedFuzzyMatcher), precomputedItem.GetSubtitleTarget(precomputedFuzzyMatcher))
: (precomputedFuzzyMatcher.PrecomputeTarget(title), precomputedFuzzyMatcher.PrecomputeTarget(topLevelOrAppItem.Subtitle));
// Score components
var nameScore = precomputedFuzzyMatcher.Score(query, titleTarget);
var descriptionScore = (precomputedFuzzyMatcher.Score(query, subtitleTarget) - 4) / 2.0;
var extensionScore = extensionDisplayNameTarget is { } extTarget ? precomputedFuzzyMatcher.Score(query, extTarget) / 1.5 : 0;
// Take best match from title/description/fallback, then add extension score
// Extension adds to max so items matching both title AND extension bubble up
var baseScore = Math.Max(Math.Max(nameScore, descriptionScore), isFallback ? 1 : 0);
var matchScore = baseScore + extensionScore;
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
// Apply a penalty to fallback items so they rank below direct matches.
// Fallbacks that dynamically match queries (like RDP connections) should
// appear after apps and direct command matches.
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
if (isFallback && matchScore > 1)
{
// Reduce fallback scores by 50% to prioritize direct matches
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
matchScore = matchScore * 0.5;
}
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
// Alias matching: exact match is overwhelming priority, substring match adds a small boost
var aliasBoost = isAliasMatch ? 9001 : (isAliasSubstringMatch ? 1 : 0);
var totalMatch = matchScore + aliasBoost;
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
2026-02-09 20:37:59 +01:00
// Apply scaling and history boost only if we matched something real
var finalScore = totalMatch * 10;
if (totalMatch > 0)
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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
{
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
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finalScore += history.GetCommandHistoryWeight(id);
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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}
return (int)finalScore;
}
CmdPal: Add precomputed fuzzy string matching to Command Palette (#44090) ## Summary of the Pull Request This PR improves fuzzy matching in Command Palette by: - Precomputing normalized strings to enable faster comparisons - Reducing memory allocations during matching, effectively down to zero It also introduces several behavioral improvements: - Strips diacritics from the normalized search string to improve matching across languages - Suppresses the same-case bonus when the query consists entirely of lowercase characters -- reflecting typical user input patterns - Allows skipping word separators -- enabling queries like Power Point to match PowerPoint This implementation is currently kept internal and is used only on the home page. For other scenarios, the `FuzzyStringMatcher` from `Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.Toolkit` is being improved instead. `PrecomputedFuzzyMatcher` offers up to a 100× performance improvement over the current `FuzzyStringMatcher`, and approximately 2–5× better performance compared to the improved version. The improvement might seem small, but it adds up and becomes quite noticeable when filtering the entire home page—whether the user starts a new search or changes the query non-incrementally (e.g., using backspace). <!-- Please review the items on the PR checklist before submitting--> ## PR Checklist - [x] Closes: #45226 - [x] Closes: #44066 - [ ] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [ ] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [ ] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: #xxx <!-- Provide a more detailed description of the PR, other things fixed, or any additional comments/features here --> ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments <!-- Describe how you validated the behavior. Add automated tests wherever possible, but list manual validation steps taken as well --> ## Validation Steps Performed
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private static int ScoreWhitespaceQuery(string query, string title, string subtitle, bool isFallback)
{
// Simple contains check for whitespace queries
var nameMatch = title.Contains(query, StringComparison.Ordinal) ? 1.0 : 0;
var descriptionMatch = subtitle.Contains(query, StringComparison.Ordinal) ? 0.5 : 0;
var baseScore = Math.Max(Math.Max(nameMatch, descriptionMatch), isFallback ? 1 : 0);
return (int)(baseScore * 10);
}
private static int ScoreFallbackItem(IListItem topLevelOrAppItem, string[] fallbackRanks)
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
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{
// Default to 1 so it always shows in list.
var finalScore = 1;
if (topLevelOrAppItem is TopLevelViewModel topLevelViewModel)
{
var index = Array.IndexOf(fallbackRanks, topLevelViewModel.Id);
if (index >= 0)
{
finalScore = fallbackRanks.Length - index + 1;
}
}
return finalScore;
}
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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public void UpdateHistory(IListItem topLevelOrAppItem)
{
var id = IdForTopLevelOrAppItem(topLevelOrAppItem);
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
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var history = _appStateModel.RecentCommands;
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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history.AddHistoryItem(id);
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
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AppStateModel.SaveState(_appStateModel);
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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}
private static string IdForTopLevelOrAppItem(IListItem topLevelOrAppItem)
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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{
if (topLevelOrAppItem is TopLevelViewModel topLevel)
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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{
return topLevel.Id;
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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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}
else
{
// we've got an app here
return topLevelOrAppItem.Command?.Id ?? string.Empty;
}
}
public void Receive(ClearSearchMessage message) => SearchText = string.Empty;
public void Receive(UpdateFallbackItemsMessage message) => RaiseItemsChanged(_tlcManager.TopLevelCommands.Count);
private void SettingsChangedHandler(SettingsModel sender, object? args) => HotReloadSettings(sender);
private void HotReloadSettings(SettingsModel settings) => ShowDetails = settings.ShowAppDetails;
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
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public void Dispose()
{
_cancellationTokenSource?.Cancel();
_cancellationTokenSource?.Dispose();
_tlcManager.PropertyChanged -= TlcManager_PropertyChanged;
_tlcManager.TopLevelCommands.CollectionChanged -= Commands_CollectionChanged;
CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
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if (_settings is not null)
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
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CmdPal: Fallback ranking and global results (#43549) > [!IMPORTANT] > For extension developers, this release includes a new required `string Id` property for `FallbackCommandItem`. While your existing extensions will continue to work, without this `Id` being set, your fallbacks will not display and will not be rankable. > Before this is released, you will want to prepare your extension fallbacks. > > As an example, we are naming our built-in extensions as: > - Calculator extension provider Id: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator` > - Calculator extension fallback: `com.microsoft.cmdpal.builtin.calculator.fallback` > > While the content of the Id isn't important, what is important is that it is unique to your extension and fallback to avoid conflicting with other extensions. Now the good stuff: ## What the heck does it do!? ### The backstory In PowerToys 0.95, we released performance improvements to Command Palette. One of the many ways we improved its speed is by no longer ranking fallback commands with other "top level" commands. Instead, all fallbacks would surface at the bottom of the results and be listed in the order they were registered with Command Palette. But this was only a temporary solution until the work included in this pull request was ready. In reality, not all fallbacks were treated equally. We marked the calculator and run fallbacks as "special." Special fallbacks **were** ranked like top-level commands and allowed to surface to the top of the results. ### The new "hotness" This PR brings the power of fallback management back to the people. In the Command Palette settings, you, dear user, can specify what order you want fallbacks to display in at the bottom of the results. This keeps those fallbacks unranked by Command Palette but displays them in an order that makes sense for you. But keep in mind, these will still live at the bottom of search results. But alas, we have also heard your cries that you'd like _some_ fallbacks to be ranked by Command Palette and surface to the top of the results. So, this PR allows you to mark any fallback as "special" by choosing to include them in the global results. Special (Global) fallbacks are treated like "top level" commands and appear in the search result based on their title & description. ### Screenshots/video <img width="1005" height="611" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8ba5d861-f887-47ed-8552-ba78937322d2" /> <img width="1501" height="973" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9edb7675-8084-4f14-8bdc-72d7d06d500e" /> <img width="706" height="744" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81ae0252-b87d-4172-a5ea-4d3102134baf" /> <img width="666" height="786" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acb76acf-531d-4e60-bb44-d1edeec77dce" /> ### GitHub issue maintenance details Closes #38312 Closes #38288 Closes #42524 Closes #41024 Closes #40351 Closes #41696 Closes #40193 --------- Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl> Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
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_settings.SettingsChanged -= SettingsChangedHandler;
CmdPal go brrrr (performance improvements) (#41959) Still a WIP, but here's the deets so far: ## No more throwing canceled tokens Throwing exceptions is expensive and since we essentially cancel tokens anytime someone is typing beyond the debounce, we could be throwing exceptions a ton during search. Since we don't care about those past executions, now they just `return`. ## Reduced number of apps returned in search While users can specify how many apps (no limit, 1, 5), if they specify no limit, we hard limit it at 10. For a few reasons, fuzzy search gets _really_ fuzzy sometimes and gives answers that users would think is just plain wrong and they make the response list longer than it needs to be. ## Fuzzy search: still fuzzy, but faster Replaced `StringMatcher` class with `FuzzyStringMatcher`. `FuzzyStringMatcher` is a C# port by @zadjii-msft of the Rust port by @lhecker for [microsoft/edit](https://github.com/microsoft/edit), which I believe originally came from [VS Code](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode). It's a whole fuzzy rabbit hole. But it's faster than the `StringMatcher` class it replaced. ## Fallbacks, you need to fall back "In the beginning, fallbacks were created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy jokes aside, fallbacks are one cause of slower search results. A few modifications have been made to get them out of the way without reverting their ability to do things dynamically. 1. Fallbacks are no longer scored and will always* appear at the bottom of the search results 2. In updating their search text, we now use a cancellation token to stop processing previous searches when a new keypress is recorded. ## * But Calculator & Run are special So, remember when I said that all fallbacks will not be ranked and always display at the bottom of the results? Surprise, some will be ranked and displayed based on that score. Specifically, Calculator and Run are fallbacks that are whitelisted from the restrictions mentioned above. They will continue to act as they do today. We do have the ability to add future fallbacks to that whitelist as well. --- ## Current preview Updated: 2025-09-24 https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c74c9a8e-e438-4101-840b-1408d2acaefd --- Closes #39763 Closes #39239 Closes #39948 Closes #38594 Closes #40330
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WeakReferenceMessenger.Default.UnregisterAll(this);
GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
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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>. ![cmdpal-pr-002](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5077ec04-1009-478a-92d6-0a30989d44ac) ![cmdpal-pr-003](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63b4762a-9c19-48eb-9242-18ea48240ba0) ---- 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>
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