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Navigate Application and its Windows with Keyboard. #123

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lordlycastle opened this issue May 24, 2019 · 8 comments
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Navigate Application and its Windows with Keyboard. #123

lordlycastle opened this issue May 24, 2019 · 8 comments
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Idea-New PowerToy Suggestion for a PowerToy Product-PowerToys Run Improved app launch PT Run (Win+R) Window

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@lordlycastle
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Alt+Tab is very limiting. You have to find the window then navigate to it by pressing tabs many times. So how about a keyboard based application/window switcher where you can type name of app, abbreviation, app's window name to bring it to front?

Look at launchbar for inspiration.

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Interesting idea combining alt+tab and a text search driven launcher. Why not search for running apps as well as apps you can launch.

@indierawk2k2 indierawk2k2 added the Idea-New PowerToy Suggestion for a PowerToy label May 29, 2019
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@indierawk2k2 if you can come up with a good enough UX which allows for both that would be nice. But seeing the current state of the search functionality on win implementing this separately would be much quicker.

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GZJ commented Jun 7, 2019

Win + TAB and then use the keyboard to search, I think it's a good way.

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manogna4 commented Jun 14, 2019

a native functionality like http://www.switcheroo.io/ would be great. I don't use alt+tab anymore.
add a function to launch an app if not found in the list of running apps (does not exist in switcheroo).

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AdamJel commented Aug 11, 2019

Recommendation from @manogna4 about switcheroo is good. I want to suggest one more great little utility called https://www.launchy.net/. It is a small search bar, which goes through user defined catalog and can run app. I use it for accessing most used files and for running all applications.

So if functions from both apps would be united under the new powerToy AltTab, that would be nice.

ryanbodrug-microsoft pushed a commit to ryanbodrug-microsoft/PowerToys that referenced this issue Apr 14, 2020
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crutkas commented Oct 28, 2020

Feel like window walker inside PT Run does this.

With 0.25, just do <tea and any process that referenced TEA would come up such as Microsoft Teams

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crutkas commented Oct 28, 2020

Feel like this is already done so going to close this out. please challenge me if you PT Run's implementation is not enough

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Not really part of that. But Microsoft loves Ignoring and “cleaning up” old issues. So guess just another day at the office. 🖨

stefansjfw pushed a commit that referenced this issue Dec 18, 2024
This updates the spec to enable CmdPal to host settings for extensions. Extensions can provide us essentially, a FormPage, and we'll give that special treatment as _the settings_ for the extension. We're gonna use this in #100 in the future.

For now, I also added a helper set of classes for quickly constructing a `Settings` object, which is basically just a dictionary. Notably though, it lets us define simple control types for each of these settings, which we can then turn into the `IFormPage` on the developer's behalf.

See the [`SampleSettingsPage.cs`](zadjii-msft/PowerToys@main...dev/migrie/s/settings-for-extensions#diff-ac06e39258579222e94539315ad59e0bf04f3b0f3e83a2f8a11aa5a42d569ebe) for an example.


Closes #123
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