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Jiří Polášek
7477b561a1 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).


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740dbf5699 build(common): update project references to use $(RepoRoot) for paths (#44639) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Update project references across multiple projects to utilize
`$(RepoRoot)` for paths, ensuring consistency and improving
maintainability.

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This change affects the following projects: 
- `src/common/ManagedCsWin32/ManagedCsWin32.csproj`
- `src/common/Common.Search/Common.Search.csproj`
- `src/common/AllExperiments/AllExperiments.csproj`
- `src/modules/peek/Peek.Common/Peek.Common.csproj`
- `src/common/UITestAutomation/UITestAutomation.csproj`
- `src/common/GPOWrapperProjection/GPOWrapperProjection.csproj`
- `src/modules/powerrename/PowerRenameUITest/PowerRename.UITests.csproj`
- `src/common/LanguageModelProvider/LanguageModelProvider.csproj`
- `src/modules/Hosts/Hosts.Tests/HostsEditor.UnitTests.csproj`
- `tools/StylesReportTool/StylesReportTool.vcxproj`
- `src/common/interop/interop-tests/Common.Interop.UnitTests.csproj`
- `tools/MonitorReportTool/MonitorReportTool.vcxproj`
- `src/common/ManagedTelemetry/Telemetry/ManagedTelemetry.csproj`
- `src/modules/peek/Peek.FilePreviewer/Peek.FilePreviewer.csproj`
- `src/settings-ui/Settings.UI.Controls/Settings.UI.Controls.csproj`
- `src/common/Themes/Themes.vcxproj`
- `src/common/COMUtils/COMUtils.vcxproj`
-
`src/modules/cmdpal/Tests/Microsoft.CmdPal.UITests/Microsoft.CmdPal.UITests.csproj`
- `src/modules/imageresizer/tests/ImageResizer.UnitTests.csproj`

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 2026-02-06 16:12:44 -08:00
Jiří Polášek
753689309e CmdPal: Fix alias UI clearing when toggling Direct/Indirect combobox (#45381) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR fixes the settings UI for the top-level command alias.



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Jiří Polášek
4986915dae CmdPal: Batch ViewModel property change notifications (#44545) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR introduces batching for property change notifications emitted by
Command Palette view models. It also adds a secondary notification path
that is guaranteed to execute on a background thread.

- Introduces **`BatchUpdateManager`**, which batches
`INotifyPropertyChanged` events from view models and replays them in a
coordinated way.
- Slightly reduces UI thread contention and allows related UI updates to
be applied together, reducing visual "tearing" in list items (when
title, subtitle and icon are updated separately with slight delay).
Batching won't mitigate all occurences, but its good enough and works
auto-magically.
- Adds a complementary background notification event that:
  - Is guaranteed to run on a background thread.
  - Fires before UI-thread notifications.
- Allows consumers to attach handlers without blocking COM out-of-proc
objects.

- Updates `TopLevelViewModel` to subscribe to the background property
change event instead of the UI-thread one.
- This avoids unintentionally shifting work onto the UI thread and
re-triggering expensive operations there.
- Previously, because `TopLevelViewModel` wraps another view model and
our view models raise `INPC` on the UI thread by default, its handler
was executing on the UI thread and re-raising the event as
`IListItem.PropertyChanged`, causing `FetchProperty` methods to run on
the UI thread again.
- Ideally, `TopLevelViewModel` should be reworked to address this more
cleanly, but that turned out to be a non-trivial change. This PR applies
a targeted mitigation in the meantime.








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Jiří Polášek
5f124cec55 CmdPal: Cache and show information for disabled command providers (#44278) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR adds a cache of command provider information so we can show
providers even when the command provider isn’t loaded.

It also updates the description for disabled extensions on the
Extensions page to always include the extension name.

Finally, it adds a placeholder icon for cases where an extension icon
isn’t loaded. Note that this doesn’t address fully transparent icons
that some extensions may inherit from the default template.

Before:

<img width="1883" height="167" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7ccaa669-9516-4b57-9646-4e755d29d75c"
/>


After:

<img width="1873" height="190" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f29549c2-ddd5-4688-ba9c-d1abd4b523a0"
/>


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Jiří Polášek
8ec530c65e CmdPal: GEH per partes; part 1: error report builder, sanitizer and internals tools setting page (#44140) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR adds three parts of the original big bad global error handler
(error report builder, sanitization and internal tools UI).

### Error Report Generation

- `ErrorReportBuilder`: Produces a detailed, technical report with
system context.
- Comprehensive data: OS version, architecture, culture, app version,
elevation status, etc.
- Exception analysis: Coalesces nested exception messages and HRESULT
details for clearer diagnostics.

<details><summary>Example</summary>
<pre>

This is an error report generated by Windows Command Palette.
If you are seeing this, it means something went a little sideways in the
app.
You can help us fix it by filing a report at
https://aka.ms/powerToysReportBug.

(While you’re at it, give the details below a quick skim — just to make
sure there’s nothing personal you’d prefer not to share. It’s rare, but
sometimes little surprises sneak in.)
============================================================
Summary:
  Message:               Test exception; thrown from the UI thread
  Type:                  System.NotImplementedException
  Source:                Microsoft.CmdPal.UI
  Time:                  2025-08-25 18:54:44.3854569
  HRESULT:               0x80004001 (-2147467263)
  Context:               MainThreadException

Application:
  App version:           0.0.1.0
  Is elevated:           no

Environment:
  OS version:            Microsoft Windows 10.0.26120
  OS architecture:       X64
  Runtime identifier:    win-x64
  Framework:             .NET 9.0.8
  Process architecture:  X64
  Culture:               cs-CZ
  UI culture:            en-US

Stack Trace:
at
Microsoft.CmdPal.UI.Settings.InternalPage.ThrowPlainMainThreadException_Click(Object
sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
at
WinRT._EventSource_global__Microsoft_UI_Xaml_RoutedEventHandler.EventState.<GetEventInvoke>b__1_0(Object
sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
at ABI.Microsoft.UI.Xaml.RoutedEventHandler.Do_Abi_Invoke(IntPtr
thisPtr, IntPtr sender, IntPtr e)

------------------ Full Exception Details ------------------
System.NotImplementedException: Test exception; thrown from the UI
thread
at
Microsoft.CmdPal.UI.Settings.InternalPage.ThrowPlainMainThreadException_Click(Object
sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
at
WinRT._EventSource_global__Microsoft_UI_Xaml_RoutedEventHandler.EventState.<GetEventInvoke>b__1_0(Object
sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
at ABI.Microsoft.UI.Xaml.RoutedEventHandler.Do_Abi_Invoke(IntPtr
thisPtr, IntPtr sender, IntPtr e)

============================================================

</pre>
</details> 

Real-world example: #41362

### PII Sanitization Framework

- `ErrorReportSanitizer`: Multi-layer sanitization pipeline for
sensitive data.
- Nine specialized rule providers:
- `PiiRuleProvider`: Personally identifiable information (emails, phone
numbers, SSNs).
- `ProfilePathAndUsernameRuleProvider`: Windows user profiles and
usernames.
- `NetworkRuleProvider`: IP addresses, MAC addresses, network
identifiers.
- `SecretKeyValueRulesProvider`: API keys, tokens, passwords in
key/value formats.
  - `FilenameMaskRuleProvider`: Sensitive file paths and extensions.
  - `UrlRuleProvider`: URLs and web addresses.
  - `TokenRuleProvider`: JWT and other auth tokens.
  - `ConnectionStringRuleProvider`: Database connection strings.
- `EnvironmentPropertiesRuleProvider`: Environment variables and system
properties.

### Internals Tools Page

A page in settings available in non-CI-builds:

<img width="1305" height="745" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3145ecfd-997f-491d-8c8a-6096634b6045"
/>


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 2026-01-28 21:09:37 -06:00
Michael Jolley
5098809e14 Devaluing fallback ranks in global sort (#44691) 
Fixes #44630

Devaluing fallback ranks by 50% so direct matches are ranked higher.

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Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
 2026-01-14 09:52:38 +08:00
Jiří Polášek
ae9ba62a40 CmdPal: Remove subtitle from all built-in top level commands (#44621) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR removes subtitles from all built-in top-level commands, except
for fallbacks, apps, and bookmarks.

<img width="885" height="987" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4da7377d-2c86-4658-a96b-33a881333639"
/>

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Michael Jolley
f1e045751a 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
Jessica Dene Earley-Cha
37bd24db36 Cmdpal: user research on extension invokes (#43905) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

Added two events that Niels asked for:

- `CmdPal_ExtensionInvoked`
- Track which extensions are being used (e.g., file search, app
launching, calculator, etc.).
    - Properties logged
        - ExtensionId - Unique identifier of the extension provider
        - CommandType - Display name of the command being invoked
        - Success - Whether the command executed successfully
        - ExecutionTimeMs - Execution time in milliseconds
- `CmdPal_SessionDuration`
    - Tracks how long Command Palette stays open (launch → close). 
    - Properties logged
        - DurationMs - Session duration in milliseconds
        - CommandsExecuted - Number of commands executed
        - PagesVisited - Number of pages visited
- DismissalReason - Why the session ended (Escape, LostFocus, Command,
etc.)
        - SearchQueriesCount - Number of search queries executed
        - MaxNavigationDepth - Maximum navigation depth reached
        - ErrorCount - Number of errors encountered



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Jiří Polášek
73786cd2be CmdPal: Add drag & drop support (#44165) 
## 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!


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/13eb9a71-e760-43ea-8c2d-cd41cf377905




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Jiří Polášek
97c1de8bf6 CmdPal: Light, dark, pink, and unicorns (#43505) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR introduces user settings for app mode themes (dark, light, or
system) and background customization options, including custom colors,
system accent colors, or custom images.

- Adds a new page to the Settings window with new appearance settings
and moves some existing settings there as well.
- Introduces a new core-level service abstraction, `IThemeService`, that
holds the state for the current theme.
- Uses the helper class `ResourceSwapper` to update application-level
XAML resources. The way WinUI / XAML handles these is painful, and XAML
Hot Reload is pain². Initialization must be lazy, as XAML resources can
only be accessed after the window is activated.
- `ThemeService` takes app and system settings and selects one of the
registered `IThemeProvider`s to calculate visuals and choose the
appropriate XAML resources.
  - At the moment, there are two:
    - `NormalThemeProvider`
      - Provides the current uncolorized light and dark styles  
      - `ms-appx:///Styles/Theme.Normal.xaml`
    - `ColorfulThemeProvider`
- Style that matches the Windows 11 visual style (based on the Start
menu) and colors
      - `ms-appx:///Styles/Theme.Colorful.xaml`  
- Applied when the background is colorized or a background image is
selected
- The app theme is applied only on the main window
(`WindowThemeSynchronizer` helper class can be used to synchronize other
windows if needed).
- Adds a new dependency on `Microsoft.Graphics.Win2D`.
- Adds a custom color picker popup; the one from the Community Toolkit
occasionally loses the selected color.
- Flyby: separates the keyword tag and localizable label for pages in
the Settings window navigation.


## Pictures? Pictures!

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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e3485c71-7faa-495b-b455-b313ea6046ee"
/>

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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/820fa823-34d4-426d-b066-b1049dc3266f"
/>

Matching Windows accent color and tint:

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 2025-12-09 18:56:03 -06:00
Dave Rayment
4710b816b4 [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.

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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.

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- 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 15:01:56 -06:00
Jiří Polášek
e68526b8d8 CmdPal: Add configuration option for Escape key behavior (#43354) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR adds a new option to the **General** page in **Settings**:

Escape key behavior — a dropdown with the following choices:

- Clear search first, then go back
  - Current behavior.
  - If the search box contains text, it is cleared; otherwise goes back.
  - On the home page, CmdPal is dismissed.

- Go back
  - Leaves the search text intact.
- If the page is not transient, the search text reappears when
returning.
  - On the home page, CmdPal is dismissed.

- Hide window and go home (Always dismiss)
  - Immediately dismisses CmdPal and navigates to the home page.
  - Ignores the **Go home when activated** setting.
  - Search text is cleared.

- Hide window
  - Just hides the window.
  - Intended to be used with #43355.

This implementation preserves existing behavior, except for **Always
dismiss**, which always forces navigation to the home page.

## Pictures? Pictures!

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Jiří Polášek
32c13cead4 CmdPal: Remove fallbacks from the home page when there's no query (#44005) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR stops fallback commands from showing on the homepage when
there’s no query, with the reasons detailed in the linked issue.

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 2025-12-01 13:24:54 -06:00
Michael Jolley
06afe09973 CmdPal: New Remote Desktop built-in extension (#43090) 
This PR introduces a new built-in extension for Remote Desktop users.

It allows you to view past RDP connections, save predefined connections,
and connect to any of them. Or start a new RDP connection.


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6a5041a6-5741-4df0-a305-da7166f962e1

### GitHub issue maintenance stuff

Closes #38305

---------

Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl>
Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
 2025-11-29 13:07:19 -06:00
Jiří Polášek
47d4a65223 CmdPal: Add option to return to home automatically after a delay (#43551) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR replaces the Go home when activated setting with a new
Automatically return home option. This allows users to specify how long
the Command Palette should wait after being dismissed before
automatically returning to the home page. It also introduces migration
logic to transition from the old setting to the new one.

## Pictures? Pictures!

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Jiří Polášek
2c9a9e9fca CmdPal: Improve Command Palette behavior in "Last position" mode (#43543) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR improves Command Palette behavior in “Last position” mode:
- Correctly handles DPI changes between monitors.
- Ensures the window is always visible — if it’s fully off-screen or has
less than 100px visible on any axis, it is re-centered.



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 2025-11-24 16:57:10 -06:00
Niels Laute
e19520e675 [CmdPal] Extension string updates (#43269) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request

Feedback from the design team:
- Reduce any redundant or long text strings for better readability and
localization
- `Verb + noun` for most extensions
- Sentence casing according to the Windows Writing Guidelines


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 2025-11-05 19:29:04 -06:00
Jiří Polášek
e2591250be CmdPal: Treat System command provider as special (#43321) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This change marks the System command provider as special, ensuring
fallback items are surfaced at the top of the list.

Additionally, the SystemCommandExtensionProvider ID has been updated to
comply with the new naming convention.

As a small cleanup, SystemCommandExtensionProvider is now sealed.

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Shawn Yuan
0d18727e81 [CmdPal] Added recenter window support. (#38943) 
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Added a new setting option to Command Palette that allows users to
choose whether the window should be recentered on every launch or
remember its last position. This enhancement improves user experience by
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This PR adds a "Recenter window on launch" setting to Command Palette
with the following changes:

1. Added a new `RecenterWindow` property to `SettingsModel` (default is
true for backward compatibility)
2. Added corresponding property to `SettingsViewModel` for binding
3. Created a new `WindowPosition` class to track window position and
size
4. Modified `MainWindow.xaml.cs` to:
    - Track window position and size changes
    - Update position memory when window is modified or dismissed
    - Respect the recenter setting when showing the window
5. Added UI controls in the settings page with proper localization
strings

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1c1db9f6-b23e-47c0-9a03-93906d4c9a42)



This feature allows users who prefer to have the Command Palette appear
in a specific screen location to maintain that preference, while others
can continue using the centered window behavior.

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last position

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Signed-off-by: Shawn Yuan <shuaiyuan@microsoft.com>
 2025-10-28 14:37:45 -05:00
Jiří Polášek
1e40d6b15b CmdPal: Extension list search (#41453) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

Adds a rough implementation that appears to work, but it hasn’t been
tested. Don’t rely on it yet—I’m too tired to test properly or write a
polished commit message.

Pictures? Pictures!

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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3d6c23bc-f26d-4e31-ae09-d91efd304048"
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6017b2d4-ccd9-4555-b81f-e2b1f78c48e5"
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<img width="577" height="334" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/987fea99-05b2-4d31-b90c-327122daa241"
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Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl>
Co-authored-by: Michael Jolley <mike@baldbeardedbuilder.com>
 2025-10-28 14:36:42 -05:00
Jiří Polášek
a69f7fa806 CmdPal: Update top-level item view model to reflect change of the associated command (#42806) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR implements a fix that ensures the top-level command's alias,
hotkey, and tags are automatically updated whenever the associated
command is modified, as the command defines the actual identity of the
item.

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Jiří Polášek
b3628aa068 CmdPal: Fix exception logging in ContentFormViewModel (#42460) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR fixes logging entry. The invocation resembled a semantic logger
call, but its signature doesn’t match ManagedCommon.Logger. As a result,
it logged the placeholder text instead of the intended exception value:
```log
[01:43:41.8235422] [Error] ContentFormViewModel.cs::Unexpected HRESULT has been returned from a call to a COM component.::55
    Error building card from template: {Message}
```

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Co-authored-by: Michael Jolley <mike@baldbeardedbuilder.com>
 2025-10-17 14:31:47 -05:00
Jiří Polášek
97e62b3253 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.

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 2025-10-10 17:58:42 +02:00
Michael Jolley
075bbb46cb CmdPal: Fixes for the build for the fixes 0.95 (#42279) 
Closes #42241
Closes #42245 

Apps that were pinned would show in search results twice. Resolved.

Run & Calculator wouldn't show in search results. Resolved.
 2025-10-09 20:37:23 -07:00
Mike Griese
f55c49e15b CmdPal: adjust frecency weighting (#42242) 
In #41959 we changed the string matcher's weighting. It ended up giving
us lower scores than before.

That meant that the weighting from recent commands was far too heavy,
and it was polluting the results. Basically any command that you'd run
would be like, 30 characters of weight heavier than anything you
haven't.


This increases the weight of all string matches by 10x. That means
something like
`Command Prompt` will get a string matched weight of `100` instead of
`10`. This balances better with the weighting from frecency (where the
MRU command gets +35, then `+min(5*uses,35)`, for up to 70 points of
weight)

It also adds a bunch of tests here, to try and catch this again in the
future.

Closes #42158
 2025-10-09 15:35:22 -04:00
Mike Griese
8ce4b635cf CmdPal: add a setting for the page transition animation (#42093) 
Basically title.

Closes #41869
 2025-10-02 06:37:18 -05:00
Mike Griese
8318a40dd4 CmdPal: Bump version to 0.6 (#42097) 
This bumps the CmdPal version to 0.6.

It also moves the template project to consume the 0.5 SDK. 

It also removes the WASDK dependency, because we only need the MSIX
tooling.
 2025-09-30 12:55:06 -05:00
Jiří Polášek
2b6c5d2cdd 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".


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 2025-09-26 16:00:53 -05:00
Michael Jolley
a1c8541d8b Materializing lists to prevent rescoring (#42017) 
Read title. Making MainListPage materialize search results so
enumerating doesn't rescore the item.
 2025-09-26 09:59:23 -05:00
Mike Griese
2e0fe16128 CmdPal: Move core projects into Core/ (#41358) 
Couple little things here:

* Makes `Microsoft.CmdPal.Common` a `Core` project
* Moves the `CmdPal.Core` projects into a single `Core/` directory
* Adds the `CoreLogger` which I had stashed in
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/compare/dev/migrie/40113/extension-hosts-try-2...dev/migrie/b/remove-core-managedcommon-dep
a while back
* De-duplicates a bunch of commands that were in both Apps and Common
* moves all the commands into the toolkit, instead of in the Common
project
 2025-09-26 08:05:37 -05:00
Michael Jolley
d07f40eec3 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



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---

Closes #39763
Closes #39239
Closes #39948
Closes #38594
Closes #40330
 2025-09-25 13:48:13 -05:00
Mike Griese
314a6e73eb CmdPal: Remove support for "selection" TextToSuggest (#41956) 
`TextToSuggest` has been nothing but pain. We need another approach.
I'm leaving the code, but just disabled behind an env flag. Same as
actions.

Closes #41659
 2025-09-24 12:48:59 -05:00
Shawn Yuan
0cb7cc6df2 Upgrade WinAppSDK to 1.8 official release (#41723) 
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improves the build pipeline's logic for selecting MSIX packages. These
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Dependency and SDK upgrades:

* Upgraded `Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK` and related packages (Base,
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to version 1.8.x in all relevant project files, including
`Directory.Packages.props`, `.vcxproj`, `.csproj`, and `packages.config`
files. This also involved updating import paths and error checks for the
new package structure.
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* Updated `Microsoft.Web.WebView2` to version 1.0.3179.45 and
`Microsoft.Windows.SDK.BuildTools` to 10.0.26100.4948 in
`Directory.Packages.props`.
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Build and packaging improvements:

* Enhanced the MSIX package selection logic in the build pipeline
(`job-build-project.yml`) to prioritize platform-specific packages
(x64/arm64) and provide clearer logging and error handling when no
packages are found.
* Modified `Microsoft.CmdPal.UI.csproj` to disable Appx bundling and set
a specific test directory for Appx packages during CI builds, improving
build output organization.

These updates help ensure the project stays current with the latest SDKs
and improves reliability and transparency in the build process.

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Signed-off-by: Shawn Yuan <shuaiyuan@microsoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Leilei Zhang <leilzh@microsoft.com>
 2025-09-19 15:45:48 +08:00
Jiří Polášek
c87ef438c9 CmdPal: Add URI protocol command to reload extension (#41445) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR introduces a new way to reload extensions externally and makes
the feature configurable in the settings UI.

- Adds a new URI protocol command `x-cmdpal://reload` → triggers an
extension reload
- Introduces a new "For Developers" section on the General settings page
- Includes an option to enable/disable the external reload feature
- **Note:** This change depends on the fix in #41344 to work correctly. 

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 2025-09-05 12:12:02 -05:00
Jiří Polášek
4e7871b0bf CmdPal: Handle corrupted app state file when saving new state (#41422) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

Ensures the new state is saved even if the previous one is corrupted,
which is then ignored. Improves error handling and code clarity in
`AppStateModel`. Replaces Debug sink logging with structured Logger.

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 2025-09-02 12:21:14 -05:00
Jiří Polášek
74b6140911 CmdPal: Make sure fallback items have icons visible in Settings window (#41427) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR ensures that fallback items consistently display an icon in
Settings window:

- Adds a new `InitialIcon` property to `TopLevelViewModel` to store the
first non-empty icon received.
- Uses `InitialIcon` in the extension settings page when listing
fallback items belonging to an extension.
- Sets initial icons in the constructor for fallback items that were not
previously initialized:
  - Date & Time extension  
  - System Commands extension
- The Windows Settings extension had its icon initially set, but it was
cleared when the item was updated for an empty search query. By
persisting the initial icon, subsequent updates no longer affect how the
fallback item is represented in Settings.

This change is considered a hotfix for the current state.  
The ideal long-term solution would be to declare the `DisplayIcon` on
fallback item explicitly, similar to `DisplayTitle`.
 
Pictures!

Date and Time:
<img width="495" height="218" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0f5815ed-62ce-4479-9bb9-692a1b8dbaa6"
/>

Windows Settings extension:
<img width="429" height="209" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/03b5bc6e-6ef0-4f0f-8d9f-d71c0df1f49d"
/>

System Commands extension
<img width="632" height="426" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/63ae2486-8e60-462c-84c6-ad914826efec"
/>


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- Verified that icons are correctly displayed for all built-in
extensions.
- Confirmed correct behavior with third-party extensions (e.g., Colors
for Command Palette).
- Tested in Release configuration with AOT enabled.
 2025-09-02 12:20:59 -05:00
Michael Jolley
336cdaff9b CmdPal: Added settings for limiting apps on top level searches (#40915) 
Closes #40062

Adds a setting to limit the number of apps returned on top level
searches.

Can limit to none, 1, 5, 10, or 20.


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/de60111f-fb02-4db6-9ae9-2f636c171b5b
 2025-08-27 10:52:39 -05:00
Mike Griese
11218ea4d8 CmdPal: Make debugging extension load errors easier (#41251) 
Turns out we didn't log all the HRESULTs for failing to load an
extension. This adds more logging.

It also adds a context command on the log command to make it easier to
get to the log files
 2025-08-26 10:54:58 -05:00
Mike Griese
e842621036 CmdPal: Make it easier to add APIs in the future (#41056) 
We learned a lot about adding interfaces in WinRT this week. I figured
I'd send a PR to write it all down.
 2025-08-21 16:53:00 -05:00
Michael Jolley
56aa9acfb4 CmdPal: Ensuring alias changes are propagated to related TopLevelViewModels (#40970) 
Closes #39709

- Only updating aliases when the alias has changed
- When an alias is used that is already in use, remove the alias from
the previous TopLevelViewModel
- Don't crash if the previous TopLevelViewModel doesn't exist (e.g. it
was uninstalled)
 2025-08-21 06:09:00 -05:00
leileizhang
759f5c02cb [Cmdpal] Use DynamicDependency to preserve trimmed Adaptive Card action types (#41027) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request
1. Preserve Adaptive Card action types during trimming using
DynamicDependency
2. Revert PR https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/41010

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 2025-08-20 16:47:38 +08:00
Jiří Polášek
409ae3d73a CmdPal: Improve page exception details for users (#41035) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

Show timestamp, HRESULT (hex/decimal), and full Exception.ToString() in
the error message. Centralize message generation in a helper class for
consistency.

Example:

```
============================================================
😢 An unexpected error occurred in the 'Open' extension.

Summary:
  Message:    Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. (inferred from HRESULT 0x80131509)
  Type:       System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
  Source:     WinRT.Runtime
  Time:       2025-08-07 15:54:20.4189499
  HRESULT:    0x80131509 (-2146233079)

Stack Trace:
   at WinRT.ExceptionHelpers.<ThrowExceptionForHR>g__Throw|38_0(Int32 hr)
   at ABI.Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.IListPageMethods.GetItems(IObjectReference _obj)
   at Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.ViewModels.ListViewModel.FetchItems()
   at Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.ViewModels.ListViewModel.InitializeProperties()
   at Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.ViewModels.PageViewModel.InitializeAsync()

------------------ Full Exception Details ------------------
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80131509)
   at WinRT.ExceptionHelpers.<ThrowExceptionForHR>g__Throw|38_0(Int32 hr)
   at ABI.Microsoft.CommandPalette.Extensions.IListPageMethods.GetItems(IObjectReference _obj)
   at Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.ViewModels.ListViewModel.FetchItems()
   at Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.ViewModels.ListViewModel.InitializeProperties()
   at Microsoft.CmdPal.Core.ViewModels.PageViewModel.InitializeAsync()

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============================================================

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I crashed an extension on purpose and read the message.
 2025-08-18 11:31:41 -05:00
Michael Jolley
6acb793184 CmdPal: Null pattern matching based on is expression rather than overridable operators (#40972) 
What the title says. 😄 

Rather than relying on the potentially overloaded `!=` or `==` operators
when checking for null, now we'll use the `is` expression (possibly
combined with the `not` operator) to ensure correct checking. Probably
overkill for many of these classes, but decided to err on the side of
consistency. Would matter more on classes that may be inherited or
extended.

Using `is` and `is not` will provide us a guarantee that no
user-overloaded equality operators (`==`/`!=`) is invoked when a
`expression is null` is evaluated.

In code form, changed all instances of:

```c#
something != null

something == null
```

to:

```c#
something is not null

something is null
```

The one exception was checking null on a `KeyChord`. `KeyChord` is a
struct which is never null so VS will raise an error when trying this
versus just providing a warning when using `keyChord != null`. In
reality, we shouldn't do this check because it can't ever be null. In
the case of a `KeyChord` it **would** be a `KeyChord` equivalent to:

```c#
KeyChord keyChord = new ()
{
    Modifiers = 0,
    Vkey = 0,
    ScanCode = 0
};
```
 2025-08-18 06:07:28 -05:00
Jiří Polášek
c4c9277f3f CmdPal: Fix regression when updating a command provider without commands (#40984) 
Improves item insertion logic in TopLevelCommandManager.

Updated the insertion logic to handle invalid startIndex values. If
startIndex is -1, new items will be appended to the end of the
collection, enhancing robustness.

Fixes regression introduced in #40752

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 2025-08-15 09:17:57 -05:00
Mike Griese
7f4a97cac5 CmdPal: extension nuget should target a lower windows SDK version (#40902) 
related to some #40113 work

The extension SDK shouldn't rely on a preview version of the Windows
SDK. It should use the stable one.

Also moves some messages around that we didn't need
 2025-08-13 13:42:52 -05:00
Mike Griese
bc134b344b CmdPal: Make sure to include apps in the ctor (#41081) 
A regression from #40132 

We need to set the value of `_includeApps` in the `MainListPage` ctor.
Without it, if the user doesn't have any extensions installed, the value
is never updated.
 2025-08-12 07:43:08 +08:00
Mike Griese
e93b044f39 CmdPal: Once again, I am asking you to fix form submits (#41010) 
Closes #40979

Usually, you're supposed to try to cast the action to a specific
type, and use those objects to get the data you need.
However, there's something weird with AdaptiveCards and the way it
works when we consume it when built in Release, with AOT (and
trimming) enabled. Any sort of `action.As<IAdaptiveSubmitAction>()`
or similar will throw a System.InvalidCastException.

Instead we have this horror show.

The `action.ToJson()` blob ACTUALLY CONTAINS THE `type` field, which
we can use to determine what kind of action it is. Then we can parse
the JSON manually based on the type.
 2025-08-06 19:41:02 -05:00
Jiří Polášek
0997c1a013 CmdPal: Coalesce top-level commands list changes into a single task (#40943) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

Self-refresh of `MainListPage` introduced in #40132 causes unnecessary
spawning of tasks by `ReapplySearchInBackground` and pushing the code
down the scenic route instead of taking shortcut.

This drop-in fix introduces a single-worker coalescing refresh loop to
eliminate thread-pool churn and syncs state in early-return paths.

## PR Checklist

- [x] Closes: #40916
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 2025-08-05 16:26:50 -05:00