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Niels Laute
3d2f069c43 [CmdPal Dock] New pin UX (#46436) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR introduces a new dialog that gives you more control on how a
command gets pinned to the Dock.


![PinUX](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c270e93f-3fd9-42d5-aaa9-95c08efb8bac)


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Jessica Dene Earley-Cha
ff194c0b5f [Cmdpal] Screen reader announces "Enter Alias" instead of "Alias" in ExtensionPage (#45906) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Fixes a screen reader accessibility issue where the Alias TextBox in the
ExtensionPage settings was announcing "Enter Alias" as its accessible
name instead of just "Alias", making it confusing for users relying on
assistive technology.

This is part of the a11y bug batch.
User Impact:
Duplicate announcements can confuse users, increase cognitive load, and
slow down interaction for users relying on assistive technologies.

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Jessica Dene Earley-Cha
a151d6c8b6 [cmdpal] Announce Shortcut key information (#46164) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Add audio text about shortcut key for settings on the settings button

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User Impact:
Users relying on assistive technologies may be unaware of shortcut keys,
reducing efficiency and making it harder to use the Command Palette
effectively.

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 2026-03-18 11:22:49 -07:00
Niels Laute
bab77edd11 [Dock] Add pin instructions (#46052) 
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Niels Laute
fad5a3ac69 Adding NEW tag to KBM and Dock (#46048) 
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Niels Laute
8c4ff37a50 [CmdPal] Visual dock tweaks (#45954) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

- Changes the Dock height to 38px (from 32) to avoid item and app
clipping.
- Localization
- Removing dead code
- If the tooltip string is null or empty, the tooltip will not be shown
- Adding hyperlinks on the General and Dock pages in Settings (to be
updated to the corresponding docs via aka.ms)
- The droptarget for an empty listview is now wider, and has a
highlight-color to communicate an item can be dropped:
<img width="371" height="142" alt="image"
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Jiří Polášek
d20ae940d5 CmdPal: Replace FiltersDropDown ComboBox with searchable dropdown (#45747) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

Replaces the ComboBox-based filter control with a DropDownButton and
Flyout containing a searchable TextBox and ListView.

- Add type-to-search: typing while button is focused opens the flyout
and filters items by name
- Designed to match appearance of the context menu
- Add keyboard navigation: `Up`/`Down `moves selection from search box,
`Enter` confirms, `Escape` clears search text (or closes if empty), `F4`
opens the dropdown
- Add `Alt+F` shortcut on ShellPage to toggle filter focus
- Style flyout to match ContextMenu (item padding, separators, search
box appearance)
- Show "No results" empty state when search matches nothing
- After confirming selection, return focus to the main search box
- Add accessibility
- Update `FilterTemplateSelector` to support both ComboBoxItem and
ListViewItem containers
- Guard against infinite loop in navigation when only separators exist

## Pictures? Moving!



https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/60e232ae-8cee-4759-a9a7-d7edbf78719e

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Niels Laute
798564eea4 CmdPal Dock visual bugfixes (#45871) 
This PR fixes the following bugs and iprovements:

- The scroll forward/backward glyphs were clipped
- The `Show labels` settings is redundant as those can be set
individually, and actually messes with that setting. Therefore, removed
from the Settings UI.
- Minor string changes
- The 'Filter commands' box is hidden when right clicking the Dock to
customize it.

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Co-authored-by: Jiří Polášek <me@jiripolasek.com>
 2026-03-03 10:54:28 +01:00
Jiří Polášek
cc3c3c0367 Dock: dock visual nits and bits (#45873) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

- Improves vertical (left/right) dock layout:
  - Dock items are not clipped;
  - Items with label(s) are stretched to full width;
  - Items without label(s) are centered.
- Top button is in the absolute corner to make clicking to it easier.
- Dock items now have a min width and height 32px.
- Removes a duplicate "No background" label in the expander body on the
Dock settings page.

## Pictures? Pictures!
Vertical layout:
<img width="175" height="1439" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4f11d9e9-405f-4d9a-8dee-4c8912b88c7c"
/>

Horizontal layout:
<img width="5119" height="49" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8420ef26-575e-4427-8db8-f9793e3b3572"
/>



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 2026-03-01 20:06:42 +01:00
Mike Griese
70bf430d9f CmdPal: Add a dock (#45824) 
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>
 2026-02-27 13:24:23 +00:00
Mike Griese
7a0e4ac891 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 16:09:17 +00:00
Michael Jolley
196b9305c3 CmdPal: Add 'Keep previous query' setting to Command Palette (#45742) 
## Summary

Closes #39929

Adds a new "Keep previous query" toggle to Command Palette settings that
preserves the last search text when the palette is reopened after
running a command.

## Changes

- **`SettingsModel.cs`** — Added `KeepPreviousQuery` bool property
(defaults to `false`)
- **`SettingsViewModel.cs`** — Added property with auto-save on change
- **`GeneralPage.xaml`** — Added toggle switch in the Activation
section, below "Highlight search on activate"
- **`Resources.resw`** — Added localized header ("Keep previous query")
and description ("Preserves the last search text when Command Palette is
reopened")
- **`SearchBar.xaml.cs`** — `Receive(GoHomeMessage)` now checks the
setting and skips `ClearSearch()` when enabled

## Behavior

- **Off (default):** No change from current behavior — search text is
cleared on dismiss.
- **On:** When a command is run and the palette dismisses, the search
text is preserved. On reopen, the previous query is still in the search
box. Combined with the existing "Highlight search on activate" setting,
the text will be pre-selected so the user can immediately retype or
press Enter to re-run.

## Validation

- Setting off: search clears on dismiss (existing behavior unchanged)
- Setting on: search text persists across dismiss/reopen
- Setting serializes/deserializes correctly via existing JSON settings
infrastructure
- No impact on page navigation, escape key behavior, or auto-go-home
timer

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 2026-02-22 21:31:50 -06:00
Jiří Polášek
3548d5c1a3 CmdPal: Add missing resources related to ShortcutControl (#45589) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR fixes crash when editing keyboard shortcut (missing string
resource) and adds another string resource to display a text for
un-assigned hotkey.

<img width="937" height="145" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1f423c3b-6f4f-4dd2-a3ba-e777b6e665ba"
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Jiří Polášek
64298a5414 CmdPal: Localize the "More" button on the command bar and hotkeys (#45505) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

Enable localization for command bar buttons and modifiers

- Adds localization support for the "More" command button on the command
bar
- Localizes the secondary command key modifier (Ctrl) and its
combinations
- Updates related tooltips for improved consistency
- Enhances the overall user experience for non-English locales

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658f90d6f8 CmdPal: Add AutomationProperties.Name to Extensions page "More" button (#45516) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request
Add an AutomationProperties.Name to the "More options" button on the
CmdPal Settings Extensions page, improving accessibility for screen
readers. Add localized AutomationProperties.Name ("More options") for
the Settings_ExtensionsPage_More_Button in Resources.resw

This address A11y bug 60946859

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Jiří Polášek
095961402b CmdPal: Transparent window (#45159) 
## Summary

This PR adds:
- Backdrop material customization
  - Alongside acrylic, the following options are now available:
  - Transparent background
  - Mica background
- Background material opacity
  - Lets you control how transparent the background is

## Pictures? Pictures!

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f7c57b05d7 fix(cmdpal): update copyright year in resources and test assertions (#44714) 
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 2026-01-14 11:29:15 +08:00
Jiří Polášek
db9f8d555e CmdPal: Get version when running as unpacked app (#44540) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR updates how the Settings / General page retrieves version
information for unpackaged apps.
It prevents a crash by reading the version from the process executable,
with a fallback to displaying a question mark when the version cannot be
determined.

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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"
/>

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/>

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/>

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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
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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Matching Windows accent color and tint:

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 2025-12-09 18:56:03 -06:00
Jiří Polášek
bf8c548501 CmdPal: Make text of text Settings button on Command Bar localizable (#44128) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

See title

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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
bece9c9217 CmdPal: Adds a back button to Settings window (#44013) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR introduces proper navigation support in the Settings window.
- Enables the Go back button in the title bar.
- Adds support for Alt + Left Arrow, mouse X1 button, and the Go back
button.
- Fixes breadcrumb updates and localization issues to prevent them from
breaking during navigation.

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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.

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Jiří Polášek
4425e3ad28 CmdPal: Change captitalization of "Last position" item (#43518) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR updates the capitalization of the drop-down item from "Last
Position" to "Last position" to align with the guidelines.

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Jiří Polášek
57f0b4b342 CmdPal: Improve crash error message (#43340) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR localizes the message displayed when an unhandled exception
causes CmdPal to crash. It also resolves a regression from commit
a991a118dc, which disabled storing to the desktop but failed to
update the corresponding message.

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Shawn Yuan
0d18727e81 [CmdPal] Added recenter window support. (#38943) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request

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
maintaining window positioning preferences across sessions.

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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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centers on launch
2. Verified that with the setting disabled, the window appears at its
last position

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Signed-off-by: Shawn Yuan <shuai.yuan.zju@gmail.com>
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.

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 2025-10-28 14:36:42 -05:00
Jiří Polášek
0e36e7e7a7 CmdPal: Add keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+,) to open Settings (#42787) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR introduces a new keyboard shortcut `Ctrl + ,` that opens the
Settings window directly.


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Niels Laute
446d1baa6f [CmdPal] Settings UX tweaks (#42303) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

Clean up of the Settings app with some minor styling changes.

- Moved activation key related settings into the Activation expander.
- On the Extensions page, seperated the alias settings for improved a11y
- Added a card to the extensions settings frame

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 2025-10-16 08:38:28 +02:00
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
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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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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Jiří Polášek
3eb8f96f3e CmdPal: Fix resource key name NavigationPaneClosed to match literal in code and prevent crash (#41361) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

Corrects a mismatch between the resource key and the actual literal used
in code. The key was incorrectly named `NavigationPageOpened`; it now
correctly uses `NavigationPaneClosed`. Introduced in #41016.


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Jessica Dene Earley-Cha
da36d410e3 move Automation Notification functionality to UIHelper, implement UIHelper in ListPage and SettingsWindow (#41016) 
## Summary of the Pull Request
Fixed #41014 and it overlapped with #40761, so I made a UIHelper
patterning off of WinUI Gallery's
[UIHelpder](0576fb508a/WinUIGallery/Helpers/UIHelper.cs (L63))

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Davide Giacometti
db953bb325 [Settings] Move title bar shutdown button to navigation view (#40714) 
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Based on
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feedback, this PR remove the title bar shutdown button in favor of a
menu item in the navigation view footer.

- Menu item is visible only when tray icon is hidden
- A confirm dialog has been added

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- Close is used in tray icon menu for closing app

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- Open settings with tray icon visible: close menu is hidden
- Open settings with tray icon hidden: close menu is visible
- Tested close menu visibility change when tray icon option is changed
- Tested cancel button of close dialog
- Tested close button of dialog

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Co-authored-by: Niels Laute <niels.laute@live.nl>
 2025-08-21 16:40:37 +08:00
Jiří Polášek
decb947283 CmdPal: Replace Tapped events with generic ones (#40640) 
## Summary of the Pull Request
Click event on WinUI buttons handle more than just click and is more
versatile that Tapped event. When you tap a Button with a finger or
stylus, or press a left mouse button while the pointer is over it, the
button raises the Click event. If a button has keyboard focus, pressing
the Enter key or the Spacebar key also raises the Click event.

This PR also replaces the right-tapped event on items on the list page
with context menu handling, allowing other input gestures (such as
Shift+F10) to also display the context menu.

And finally, it adds a button to the status messages badge so that the
flyout can be opened using the keyboard.

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Tested on desktop with keyboard and mouse (no cats), and SB2 with touch
and pen. Input gestures seem to work as intended.

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Co-authored-by: Mike Griese <migrie@microsoft.com>
 2025-07-29 17:58:39 +08:00
Jiří Polášek
32fdf79085 CmdPal: Update Back button tooltip with shortcut information (#40718) 
## Summary of the Pull Request

The tooltip for the "Back" button has been modified to include the
keyboard shortcut "Back (Alt + Left arrow)" instead of the previous text
"Back".

<img width="283" height="182" alt="image"
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 2025-07-20 16:07:00 -05:00
Mike Griese
cfa5f75862 CmdPal: Add settings to control which fallbacks are enabled (#40505) 
This adds settings to each provider to allow us to control if individual
fallback items are enabled or not, regardless of the provider being
enabled.

This is relevant to _all the threads where disabling fallback commands
came up_

This just adds another section to each provider's settings page, with a
list of the fallback commands.

This also has nothing to do with the "top-level apps search", which is
not really a fallback command - it's its own thing.

Ref #38288. Doesn't close that, because this only controls
enable/disable, not ranking.

From here, we should be able to add a dedicated page in the SUI that
shows all the fallbacks across all providers. That's where we'll enable
the ordering.
 2025-07-09 22:01:38 -05:00
Davide Giacometti
6f68f5f34a [CmdPal] Fix and localize alias settings (#39708) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request

Fixes alias settings and add localization for Direct/Indirect.


![Animation](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/64780f64-f695-4e34-9b90-828ec456c6d3)

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 2025-06-13 19:58:33 +02:00
Davide Giacometti
309582795c [CmdPal] Add system tray menu (#39155) 
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## Summary of the Pull Request

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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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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
 2025-06-05 15:29:18 -05:00
Mike Griese
f63fcfd91c Add support for filterable, nested context menus (#38776) 
_targets #38573_

At first I just wanted to add support for nested context menus.

But then I also had to add a search box, so the focus wouldn't get weird.

End result:

![nested-menus-001](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4e8f1ec8-4b09-4095-9b81-caf7abde8aea)

This gets rid of the need to have the search box and the command bar both track item keybindings - now it's just in the command bar.

Closes #38299
Closes #38442
 2025-04-24 13:32:07 -05:00
Yu Leng
d4e577bb81 [cmdpal] Add setting "ignore hotkey when full screen" (#38923) 
* init

* merge main

* merge main

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Co-authored-by: Yu Leng (from Dev Box) <yuleng@microsoft.com>
 2025-04-23 11:40:20 +08:00
Niels Laute
c04400e7df [CmdPal] A11y improvements (#38840) 
This PR introduces the following changes:

- Adding the right a11y labels - as a result, Accesibility Insights is no longer flagging any errors: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/38395
- Removing and tweaking a few animations, addressing: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/38438
- Localization improvements
 2025-04-17 08:51:40 -05:00
Stefan Markovic
c7789abf04 CmdPal: Add low-level keyboard hook for global hotkey (#38250) 
Adds the ability to make the global CmdPal hotkey a low-level hook. This is needed for `win+space`, `win+r`, et al. 

I've only added this to the root hotkey. Other hotkeys will still use the normal `RegisterHotkey` ones. We can re-evaluate this for 0.2+.



Originally: https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/349

Solves: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/38297

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Co-authored-by: Mike Griese <migrie@microsoft.com>
 2025-04-16 05:36:01 -05:00
Davide Giacometti
55f8f3a53e [CmdPal] Tray icon settings (#38672) 
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Added a settings to enable/disable the system tray icon (enabled by default).
Adopter the term "system tray icon" for consistency with Windows 11 settings.

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 2025-04-10 16:44:54 -05:00
Niels Laute
be1968aaa5 [CmdPal] Minor tweaks to the General settingspage (#38120) 
Minor tweaks to the General settingspage
 2025-03-24 21:13:24 +01:00
Niels Laute
79bd825f91 [cmdpal] UX tweaks (#38087) 
- Removing the redundant icon + text in the bottom left corner
- Minor styling tweaks
- Adding subtle show/hide animations
- Improved narrator support for Settings button
- Minor design tweaks to the tags for better visibility (still needs more work in the future)

![SubtleAnimations](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d2f6bec3-f8d6-48a4-a533-c0f2e0c81f8c)
 2025-03-24 03:13:19 -07:00
Mike Griese
14919dff10 CmdPal: Fix SUI crash ; Allow extensions to be disabled (#38040) 
Both `TopLevelCommandItemWrapper` and `TopLevelViewModel` were really the same thing. The latter was from an earlier prototype, and the former is a more correct, safer abstraction. We really should have only ever used the former, but alas, we only used it for the SUI, and it piggy-backed off the latter, and that meant the latter's bugs became the former's.


tldr: I made the icon access safe in the SUI. 

And while I was doing this, because we now have a cleaner VM abstraction here in the host, we can actually cleanly disable extensions, because the `CommandProviderWrapper` knows which `ViewModel`s it made. 

Closes https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/426
Closes https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/478
Closes https://github.com/zadjii-msft/PowerToys/issues/577
 2025-03-20 13:36:10 -07:00
Stefan Markovic
53003b9969 Localize CmdPal settings page (#38026) 
* Localize CmdPal settings page
* Xaml format
* Fix it

Follow up to #37908
 2025-03-19 14:00:25 -07:00