The SystemTrayIcon does not show all the tools I have activated! This also makes it unnecessarily difficult to display the hotkeys more quickly.

[zero-one-startgame]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

I want to select which PowerToys tools appear in the SystemTrayIcon. The Bing search was unsuccessful or the AI told me that this option doesn't exist. Some tools may not be displayed due to their functionality, but for example with "AlwaysOnTop" you could make it "simply" possible (🙈I know, it's anything but simple) to have the desired window selected when activated via the SystemTray. My concern also concerns the faster display of the hotkeys of the individual tools.

Scenario when this would be used?

I would like to see all tools in the SystemTrayIcon which I have activated in PowerToys to quickly access them without hotkeys and/or find out the hotkeys faster.

Supporting information

[Jay-o-Way]

@niels9001 we've had many issues (aka complaints) like this, haven't we?

[Jay-o-Way]

@zero-one-startgame as it is now, these icons are buttons which can activate the shown module directly. However, direct activation is not possible for a lot of modules, because they need either a window (with focus) or a file to work on.

There is an idea in #24880, what do you think about that?

[Jay-o-Way]

CC @TheJoeFin

[quietrobot]

Do you also notice it extremely slow? more than a second for the flyout to open.

[zero-one-startgame]

Do you also notice it extremely slow? more than a second for the flyout to open.

In fact, it takes up to 1 second compared to others while others open instantly.

[crutkas]

/dup https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/24283

[microsoft-github-policy-service[bot]]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!