Add support for a "dock" window in CmdPal. The dock is a toolbar powered
by the `APPBAR` APIs. This gives you a persistent region to display
commands for quick shortcuts or glanceable widgets.
The dock can be pinned to any side of the screen.
The dock can be independently styled with any of the theming controls
cmdpal already has
The dock has three "regions" to pin to - the "start", the "center", and
the "end".
Elements on the dock are grouped as "bands", which contains a set of
"items". Each "band" is one atomic unit. For example, the Media Player
extension produces 4 items, but one _band_.
The dock has only one size (for now)
The dock will only appear on your primary display (for now)
This PR includes support for pinning arbitrary top-level commands to the
dock - however, we're planning on replacing that with a more universal
ability to pin any command to the dock or top level. (see #45191). This
is at least usable for now.
This is definitely still _even more preview_ than usual PowerToys
features, but it's more than usable. I'd love to get it out there and
start collecting feedback on where to improve next. I'll probably add a
follow-up issue for tracking the remaining bugs & nits.
closes#45201
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Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl>
_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.
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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.
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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
