microsoft / microsoft/PowerToys
Proposal: Pin Command Palette to always show when on desktop
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Product-Command Palette
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- C
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Description
### Description of the new feature / enhancement
This would allow Command Palette to be an always-searchable always-focused input field on the desktop when no other windows are shown _optionally_
### Scenario when this would be used?
As a search bar from on desktop
### Supporting information
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the Command Palette implementation and its desktop-window behavior; clarify the optional always-visible and always-focused interaction and define acceptance criteria before estimating the change.
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Assessment
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100