From 4146876d88bea0a41bfce2b13164b8f5a78e8e54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 06:07:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Adding Open Settings button in SCOOBE (#45775)

See title
---
 .../Settings.UI/SettingsXAML/ScoobeWindow.xaml           | 9 ++++++++-
 .../Settings.UI/SettingsXAML/ScoobeWindow.xaml.cs        | 5 +++++
 src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/Strings/en-us/Resources.resw | 3 +++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/SettingsXAML/ScoobeWindow.xaml b/src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/SettingsXAML/ScoobeWindow.xaml
index 6c1de90b70..3efed7db4b 100644
--- a/src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/SettingsXAML/ScoobeWindow.xaml
+++ b/src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/SettingsXAML/ScoobeWindow.xaml
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-<winuiex:WindowEx
+<winuiex:WindowEx
     x:Class="Microsoft.PowerToys.Settings.UI.ScoobeWindow"
     xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
     xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
     xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
     xmlns:local="using:Microsoft.PowerToys.Settings.UI.OOBE.Views"
     xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
+    xmlns:ui="using:CommunityToolkit.WinUI"
     xmlns:winuiex="using:WinUIEx"
     Width="1100"
     Height="700"
@@ -59,6 +60,12 @@
                     </StackPanel>
                 </DataTemplate>
             </NavigationView.MenuItemTemplate>
+            <NavigationView.PaneFooter>
+                <NavigationViewItem
+                    x:Uid="Scoobe_OpenSettings"
+                    Icon="{ui:FontIcon Glyph=&#xE713;}"
+                    Tapped="OpenSettingsItem_Tapped" />
+            </NavigationView.PaneFooter>
             <NavigationView.Content>
                 <Grid>
                     <ProgressRing
diff --git a/src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/SettingsXAML/ScoobeWindow.xaml.cs b/src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/SettingsXAML/ScoobeWindow.xaml.cs
index ce8e6d0f7a..ae49c7bf81 100644
--- a/src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/SettingsXAML/ScoobeWindow.xaml.cs
+++ b/src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/SettingsXAML/ScoobeWindow.xaml.cs
@@ -206,5 +206,10 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.Settings.UI
         {
             navigationView.IsPaneOpen = !navigationView.IsPaneOpen;
         }
+
+        private void OpenSettingsItem_Tapped(object sender, Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Input.TappedRoutedEventArgs e)
+        {
+            App.OpenSettingsWindow();
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/Strings/en-us/Resources.resw b/src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/Strings/en-us/Resources.resw
index c90423c39d..012b33a1e3 100644
--- a/src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/Strings/en-us/Resources.resw
+++ b/src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/Strings/en-us/Resources.resw
@@ -2195,6 +2195,9 @@ From there, simply click on one of the supported files in the File Explorer and
   <data name="ScoobeWindow_TitleTxt.Title" xml:space="preserve">
     <value>What's new in PowerToys</value>
   </data>
+  <data name="Scoobe_OpenSettings.Content" xml:space="preserve">
+    <value>Settings</value>
+  </data>
   <data name="ScoobeReleaseNotes_ViewOnGitHub" xml:space="preserve">
     <value>View on GitHub</value>
   </data>