Settings Flyout improvement

[shuaiyuanxx]

Summary of the Pull Request

This pull request introduces the new Quick Access feature to PowerToys by integrating its host process management into the runner and system tray. The changes add the Quick Access host implementation, update project and build files to include it, and modify the runner and tray icon logic to launch and interact with the Quick Access UI.

PR Checklist

• [ ] Closes: #xxx

• [ ] Communication: I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected
• [ ] Tests: Added/updated and all pass
• [ ] Localization: All end-user-facing strings can be localized
• [ ] Dev docs: Added/updated
• [ ] New binaries: Added on the required places
  • [ ] JSON for signing for new binaries
  • [ ] WXS for installer for new binaries and localization folder
  • [ ] YML for CI pipeline for new test projects
  • [ ] YML for signed pipeline
• [ ] Documentation updated: If checked, please file a pull request on our docs repo and link it here: #xxx

Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments

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defaulttonearest swp sysmenu

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cabstr CIBUILD claude cziplib Deeplink DEFAULTTONEAREST djwsxzxb GIFs installscopeperuser ksa Olllama Qualcomm registryroot regroot rtm suntimes SWP SYSMENU TARGETDIR utm

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git commit -m 'Update check-spelling metadata'

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defaulttonearest swp sysmenu

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cabstr CIBUILD claude cziplib Deeplink DEFAULTTONEAREST djwsxzxb GIFs installscopeperuser ksa Olllama Qualcomm registryroot regroot rtm suntimes SWP SYSMENU TARGETDIR utm

To accept these unrecognized words as correct and remove the previously acknowledged and now absent words, you could run the following commands

... in a clone of the [email protected]:microsoft/PowerToys.git repository on the shawn/quickAccessImprove branch (:information_source: how do I use this?):

curl -s -S -L 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/check-spelling/check-spelling/c635c2f3f714eec2fcf27b643a1919b9a811ef2e/apply.pl' |
perl - 'https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/actions/runs/19661800958/attempts/1' &&
git commit -m 'Update check-spelling metadata'

Warnings :warning: (1)

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If the flagged items are :exploding_head: false positives

If items relate to a ...

• binary file (or some other file you wouldn't want to check at all).

  Please add a file path to the excludes.txt file matching the containing file.

  File paths are Perl 5 Regular Expressions - you can test yours before committing to verify it will match your files.

  ^ refers to the file's path from the root of the repository, so ^README\.md$ would exclude README.md (on whichever branch you're using).

• well-formed pattern.

  If you can write a pattern that would match it, try adding it to the patterns.txt file.

  Patterns are Perl 5 Regular Expressions - you can test yours before committing to verify it will match your lines.

  Note that patterns can't match multiline strings.

[vanzue]

What is the memory consumption for the tray quick access menu?

[shuaiyuanxx]

What is the memory consumption for the tray quick access menu?

About 30MB

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Lbuttondown Mbuttondown Rbuttondown Xbuttondown

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CVS

To accept these unrecognized words as correct and remove the previously acknowledged and now absent words, you could run the following commands

... in a clone of the [email protected]:microsoft/PowerToys.git repository on the shawn/quickAccessImprove branch (:information_source: how do I use this?):

curl -s -S -L 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/check-spelling/check-spelling/c635c2f3f714eec2fcf27b643a1919b9a811ef2e/apply.pl' |
perl - 'https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/actions/runs/19848411990/attempts/1' &&
git commit -m 'Update check-spelling metadata'

Warnings :warning: (1)

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:warning: Warnings	Count
:warning: ignored-expect-variant	6

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If the flagged items are :exploding_head: false positives

If items relate to a ...

• binary file (or some other file you wouldn't want to check at all).

  Please add a file path to the excludes.txt file matching the containing file.

  File paths are Perl 5 Regular Expressions - you can test yours before committing to verify it will match your files.

  ^ refers to the file's path from the root of the repository, so ^README\.md$ would exclude README.md (on whichever branch you're using).

• well-formed pattern.

  If you can write a pattern that would match it, try adding it to the patterns.txt file.

  Patterns are Perl 5 Regular Expressions - you can test yours before committing to verify it will match your lines.

  Note that patterns can't match multiline strings.

[shuaiyuanxx]

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