## Summary of the Pull Request
This PR adds basic drag-and-drop support for items in list and grid
views.
It introduces two new properties on `ListItem`, backed by
`IExtendedAttributesProvider`: `DataPackage` and `DataPackageView`.
These properties are mutually exclusive.
`DataPackage` serves as a convenience property allowing the item to
retain the underlying object without risk of losing it. Across the
extension boundary, only the immutable `DataPackageView` snapshot is
transferred. When `DataPackage` is set, `DataPackageView` is derived
from it.
This PR includes initial concrete drag-and-drop implementations for:
- File Indexer
- Clipboard History
**Todo / Missing pieces**
- [x] Extend `DataPackage` support to top-level command items, enabling
scenarios such as index fallback ~
- [x] Provide automatic drag-and-drop for unconfigured list items (e.g.,
copying title and subtitle as text)
- [x] Keep CmdPal open
- [ ] ~Clipboard commands (since we have the DataPackage...)~
- [ ] ~Improve logging~
## Pictures? Moving ones!
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This PR changes the method used to hide tool windows from the taskbar
and Alt+Tab to a more reliable approach.
Previously, this was achieved by adding `WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW` to an unowned
top-level window, which proved unreliable in several scenarios.
The new implementation assigns a hidden window as the owner of each tool
window.
This ensures that the window does not appear on the taskbar even when
the Windows setting
**Settings → System → Multitasking → On the taskbar, show all opened
windows** is set to **On all desktops**.
## Change log one-liner
Fixes Command Palette windows occasionally appearing on the taskbar
under certain system settings.
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- [x] Closes: #42395
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Tested alongside the stable CmdPal on a system with
## Summary of the Pull Request
Replaces the `SetVisibilityInSwitchers` method with `WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW`
style, removing reliance on the fragile `IsShownInSwitchers` property.
Explicitly overrides window corner preference so tool windows keep the
same rounded corners as regular app windows (tool windows otherwise
default to a smaller corner radius, which would change the look).
Benefits:
- Avoids use of the unreliable `IsShownInSwitchers` property, which has
multiple known failure cases.
- Allows window managers to correctly treat Command Palette as a popup
window rather than a normal app window, preventing unwanted tiling, grid
placement, or similar behaviors. This better matches the intended design
of CmdPal as an overlay UI.
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- [x] Closes: #41593
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Listener registers a hook on WH_KEYBOARD and raises an event when a key
is pressed down. Main window then uses it to handle the GoBack key that
we can't reach any other way.
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- [x] Related to: #41011
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Base on https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/40486 we can easily
use lab package. So all blocker has been resolved.
1. Replace CommunityToolkit.WinUI.UI.Controls.Markdown with
CommunityToolkit.Labs.WinUI.Controls.MarkdownTextBlock
2. Add default markdown style config to align some configuration with
the original one. (but still have some gap)
3. Add new configuration in pipeline to control the AOT enable/disable.
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- [x] **Closes:** #38279
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Ensures the Command Palette main window is brought to the front and made
topmost when shown. When the palette is hidden (cloaked but not
destroyed), it is moved to the bottom of the window stack to avoid
interfering with the user workflow. Dynamic removal of the topmost flag
is a precaution to prevent the cloak window from bothering user in
accessibility tools that too much -- in case they don't recognize cloak
windows as not visible).
## PR Checklist
- [x] **Closes:** #38726
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already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected
- [x] **Tests:** Nothing to test
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## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments
## Validation Steps Performed
I've tested that the Command Palette window is display over other
top-most windows (e.g. Task Manager). I've tested that the command
palette is displayed over the Rainbow gadgets when it was originally
under the gadget.
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## Summary of the Pull Request
This PR:
- Fixes the passing of activation arguments between instances.
- Adds defensive handling of exceptions if the activation argument is
corrupted.
- Ensures that the activation method is consistently handled on the main
thread.
- Updates the condition under which the main window is displayed after
startup or activation.
The main window will now be automatically shown when the app is started
or activated, except in the following cases:
- when started as a startup task,
- when started using x-cmdpal://background,
- when started using x-cmdpal://settings.
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- Move all system tray related code from main window code behind to a
dedicated service
- Add system tray menu
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## Validation Steps Performed
Manually tested:
- Started CmdPal with tray icon enabled
- Started CmdPal with tray icon disabled
- Enabled/Disabled tray icon
- Tested tray menu commands
- Verified that the tray icon is visible after restarting explorer.exe
Apps that want to show MSAL dialogs on the Command Palette would explode if they passed CmdPal's HWND to WithParentActivityOrWindow. It's not entirely clear why, but MSAL would explode if the parent HWND is hidden.
When the MSAL dialog opened, we'd hide ourselves, and badda bing, badda boom, the extension would crash.
MSAL dialogs will set us to WS_DISABLED right before the dialog is opened. Easy solution. Don't hide ourselves, if we're disabled.
Helps some friends not depend on the existence of Teams :P
Windows Command Palette ("CmdPal") is the next iteration of PowerToys Run. With extensibility at its core, the Command Palette is your one-stop launcher to start _anything_.
By default, CmdPal is bound to <kbd>Win+Alt+Space</kbd>.
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This brings the current preview version of CmdPal into the upstream PowerToys repo. There are still lots of bugs to work out, but it's reached the state we're ready to start sharing it with the world. From here, we can further collaborate with the community on the features that are important, and ensuring that we've got a most robust API to enable developers to build whatever extensions they want.
Most of the built-in PT Run modules have already been ported to CmdPal's extension API. Those include:
* Installed apps
* Shell commands
* File search (powered by the indexer)
* Windows Registry search
* Web search
* Windows Terminal Profiles
* Windows Services
* Windows settings
There are a couple new extensions built-in
* You can now search for packages on `winget` and install them right from the palette. This also powers searching for extensions for the palette
* The calculator has an entirely new implementation. This is currently less feature complete than the original PT Run one - we're looking forward to updating it to be more complete for future ingestion in Windows
* "Bookmarks" allow you to save shortcuts to files, folders, and webpages as top-level commands in the palette.
We've got a bunch of other samples too, in this repo and elsewhere
### PowerToys specific notes
CmdPal will eventually graduate out of PowerToys to live as its own application, which is why it's implemented just a little differently than most other modules. Enabling CmdPal will install its `msix` package.
The CI was minorly changed to support CmdPal version numbers independent of PowerToys itself. It doesn't make sense for us to start CmdPal at v0.90, and in the future, we want to be able to rev CmdPal independently of PT itself.
Closes#3200, closes#3600, closes#7770, closes#34273, closes#36471, closes#20976, closes#14495
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TODOs et al
**Blocking:**
- [ ] Images and descriptions in Settings and OOBE need to be properly defined, as mentioned before
- [ ] Niels is on it
- [x] Doesn't start properly from PowerToys unless the fix PR is merged.
- https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/556 merged
- [x] I seem to lose focus a lot when I press on some limits, like between the search bar and the results.
- This is https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/427
- [x] Turned off an extension like Calculator and it was still working.
- Need to get rid of that toggle, it doesn't do anything currently
- [x] `ListViewModel.<FetchItems>` crash
- Pretty confident that was fixed in https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/553
**Not blocking / improvements:**
- Show the shortcut through settings, as mentioned before, or create a button that would open CmdPalette settings.
- When PowerToys starts, CmdPalette is always shown if enabled. That's weird when just starting PowerToys/ logging in to the computer with PowerToys auto-start activated. I think this should at least be a setting.
- Needing to double press a result for it to do the default action seems quirky. If one is already selected, I think just pressing should be enough for it to do the action.
- This is currently a setting, though we're thinking of changing the setting even more: https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/392
- There's no URI extension. Was surprised when typing a URL that it only proposed a web search.
- [x] There's no System commands extension. Was expecting to be able to quickly restart the computer by typing restart but it wasn't there.
- This is in PR https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/pull/452
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Co-authored-by: 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>
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Co-authored-by: Jaime Bernardo <jaime@janeasystems.com>
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Co-authored-by: Eric Johnson <ericjohnson327@gmail.com>
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Co-authored-by: Yu Leng (from Dev Box) <yuleng@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Clint Rutkas <clint@rutkas.com>
