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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* Remove all VideoConferenceMute related code and files
* Clean up vcm driver registry keys
* Also remove the Webcam report tool
* Also clean out video conference on the installer
* Fix spellcheck
* Remove comment about video conf
* Update gpo files revision
* Revert removing the VCM policies
* Deprecate VCM GPO policy
* Change deprecation message to show first supported version
* Tweak supported strings in the adml
* Better fix for installation issues when My Documents on network drive
* Fix spellcheck
* Improved wxs comment
* Created DSCModule folder in install folder; removed DSC modules from resources
* Added back newline
* [CommandNotFound] Add support for upgrading the module
* upgrade module as a part of upgrade installation; actually set content in EnableModule.ps1
* Fix XAML style to pass CI
* Remove CmdNotFound project from sln as well
* Remove CmdNotFound psd1 file from installer
* More installer fixes
* UpgradeCommandNotFound runs after InstallFiles
* Fix NOTICE.md
* Fix custom action condition
* Pass install folder to the custom action
* Upgrade-Module --> Update-Module
* actually install the module
* spell
* verify updated scripts work; make necessary changes
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* Flatten everything and succeed build
* Figure out Settings assets
* Remove UseCommonOutputDirectory tag
* Proper settings app path
* [VCM] Fix assets location
* Fix some runtime paths
* [RegistryPreview]Use MRTCore specific pri file
* [Hosts]Use MRTCore specific pri file
* [Settings]Use MRTCore specific pri file
* [Peek]Use MRTCore specific pri file
* [FileLocksmith]Use MRTCore specific pri file
* [ScreenRuler]Use MRTCore specific pri file
* [PowerRename]Use MRTCore specific pri file
* [Peek]Move assets to own folder
* [FileLocksmith] Use own Assets path
* [Hosts]Use own assets folder
* [PowerRename]Use own assets dir
* [MeasureTool] Use its own assets folder
* [ImageResizer]Use its own assets path
* Fix spellcheck
* Fix tab instead of space in project files
* Normalize target frameworks and platforms
* Remove WINRT_NO_MAKE_DETECTION flag. No longer needed?
* Fix AOT and Hosts locations
* Fix Dll version differences on dependency
* Add Common.UI.csproj as refernce to fix dll versions
* Update ControlzEx to normalize dll versions
* Update System.Management version to 7.0.2
* Add GPOWrapper to Registry Preview to fix dll versions
* [PTRun]Reference Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting to fix dll versions
* Fix remaining output paths / dll version conflicts
* [KeyboardManager]Executables still on their own directories
* Fix Monaco paths
* WinAppSDK apps get to play outside again
* Enable VCM settings again
* Fix KBM Editor path again
* [Monaco]Set to own Assets dir
* Fix installer preamble; Fix publish. remove unneeded publishes
* Remove Hardlink functions
* Installer builds again (still needs work to work)
* Readd Monaco to spellcheck excludes
* Fix spellcheck and call publish.cmd again
* [Installer] Remove components that don't need own dirs
* [Installer] Refactor Power Launcher
* [Installer] Refactor Color Picker
* [Installer] Refactor Monaco assets
* [Installer]Generate File script no longer needs to remove files
* [Installer]Refactor FileLocksmith
* [Installer] Refactor Hosts
* [Installer]Refactor Image Resizer
* [Installer]Refactor MouseUtils
* [Installer]Refactor MWB
* [Installer]Refactor MeasureTool
* [Installer]Refactor Peek
* [Installer]Refactor PowerRename and registry fixes
* [Installer]Refactor RegistryPreview
* [Installer]Refactor ShortcutGuide
* [Installer]Refactor Settings
* [Installer]Clean up some unused stuff
* [Installer]Clean up stuff for user install
* [Installer]Fix WinUi3Apps wxs
* [Installer]Fix misplaced folders
* [Installer]Move x86 VCM dll to right path
* Fix monaco language list location
* [Installer]Fix VCM directory reference
* [CI]Fix signing
* [Installer] Fix resources folder for release CI
* [ci]Looks like we still ship NLog on PowerToys Run
* [Settings]Add dependency to avoid dll collision with Experimentation
* [RegistryPreview]Move XAML files to own path
* [RegistryPreview]Fix app icon
* [Hosts]Move XAML files to their own path
* [FileLocksmith]Move XAML files to their own path
* [Peek]Move XAML files to own path
* [ScreenRuler]Move XAML files to its own path
* [Settings]Move XAML to its own path
* [ColorPicker]Move Resources to Assets
* [ShortcutGuide]Move svgs to own Assets path
* [Awake]Move images to assets path
* [Runner]Remove debug checks for PowerToys Run assets
* [PTRun]Move images to its own assets path
* [ImageResizer]Icon for context menu on own assets path
* [PowerRename]Move ico to its own path
* Remove unneeded intermediary directories
* Remove further int dirs
* Move tests to its own output path
* Fix spellcheck
* spellcheck: remove warnings
* [CppAnalyzers]Ignore rule in a tool
* [CI]Check if all deps.json files reference same versions
* fix spellcheck
* [ci]Fix task identation
* [ci]Add script to guard against asset conflicts
* [ci]Add more deps.json audit steps in the release build
* Add xbf to spellcheck expects
* Fix typo in asset conflict check scripts
* Fix some more dependency conflicts
* Downgrade CsWinRT to have the same dll version as sdk
* [ci]Do a recursive check for every deps.json
* Fix spellcheck error inside comment
* [ci]Fix asset script error
* [ci]Name deps.json verify tasks a bit better
* [ci]Improve deps json verify script output
* [ci]Update WinRT version to the same running in CI
* Also upgrade CsWinRT in NOTICE.MD
* [PowerRename]Move XAML files to own path
* [Common]Fix Settings executable path
* [ci]Verify there's no xbf files in app directories
* [installer]Fix firewall path
* [Monaco]Move new files to their proper assets path
* [Monaco]Fix paths for new files after merge
* [Feedback]Removed unneeded build conditions
* [Feedback]Clear vcxproj direct reference to frameworks
* [Feedback]RunPlugins name to hold PTRun plugins
* [Feedback]Remove unneeded foreach
* [Feedback]Shortcut Guide svgs with ** in project file
* [Feedback]Fix spellcheck
* Add per user installer
* Separate upgrade codes for per machine and per user installation
Move per machine check to bootstrapper
Move all defines to common.wxs
Fix CI
* Update installer/PowerToysSetup/generateFileList.ps1
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* Update installer/PowerToysSetup/generateFileList.ps1
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* expect.txt
* Revert "Update installer/PowerToysSetup/generateFileList.ps1"
This reverts commit 34545dab9cec642eccf790f9daf99e522293fb1f.
* Update release CI to build both installers
* Revert bundle name change
It messes up app ID for per-user installation which ends up breaking winget update
of the per-user PT
* spellcheck
* Fix bad merge
* Add RegistryPreview
* Include backup_restore_settings.json
* Revert testing endpoint change
* Add per-machine/per-user installation GPOs
* Update doc/gpo/README.md
* Update doc/gpo/README.md
* spellcheck
* Remove disable per-machine policy
* Update doc/gpo/README.md
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