Command Palette Support

[lin-ycv]

Due to the design of CmdPal v0.1.0, extensions must be installed via a signed MSIX package (Windows won’t allow unsigned MSIX installations). Without diving into the technical details, I don’t own a signing certificate, so I’m using the Microsoft Store to sign the installer.

As a result, the extension is published on the Microsoft Store under the name ECP:CmdPal Extension. This version uses SDK2, so users on version 1.5a will need to disable alpha instance. The SDK3 variant is still in progress but is not a high priority at the moment.

I am working on publishing the signed MSIX on other platforms like Winget, Chocolatey, Scoop, and GitHub, but this process may take some time.

I’ve been informed that a future version of CmdPal will support extension installations without requiring signed packages. The specifics of how this will be implemented are still to be determined, as the development team is focused on more critical features and bug fixes.

A huge thanks to the Microsoft dev team for their support in porting the extension, and to the users who have supported me through donations!

UPDATE: in order to not muddy this repo, I've decided to split ECP adn EPT into different repos.
Repo for ECP is here: https://github.com/lin-ycv/EverythingCommandPalette

[lin-ycv]

There are known issues with ECP, many of them stems from CmdPal.
CmdPal WIP features can be tracked here

Known Issues:

1. Hotkeys support
   hotkeys that run users may have been very comfortable with, does not work, as hotkey support other than Enter and Ctrl+Enter are not implemented in CmdPal
2. Action to fopy file/folder doesn't work
   this is a limitation with WinRT, some kind of helper from CmdPal is needed
3. Results from previous query is still being displayed when query is empty
   I've tried various fixes/workarounds for this, but I got no idea why it's happening, not sure if it's my issue or CmdPal issue
4. Icons for Onedrive photos aren't being displayed
   CmdPal issue, I've notified the dev team, hopefully it's be fixed in the next release

[JLBlk]

Thank you for all your work! Afaik the 3. point with the previous query is a cmdpal issue (microsoft/PowerToys#38379)