Separation of activated and non-activated modules in PowerToys settings

[Zecr]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Simply have the PowerToys modules which have been toggled on to be at the top of the list, with a separator bar in between the activated tools and the non-activated ones.

Scenario when this would be used?

a) Can see which ones are activated at a glance
b) No need to read through the entire list just to find the one module that you use

Supporting information

No response

[yuyoyuppe]

Very nice idea imo, @niels9001

[htcfreek]

How should that work with mouse utilities and file explorer addons?

[yuyoyuppe]

Perhaps show them in the Enabled group as long as any part of them is enabled?

[niels9001]

Nice idea! @crutkas thoughts?

[crutkas]

I believe we may have a tracking item for this topic but I think it would be nice to have a visual for this.

@cinnamon-msft any insights as well?

[htcfreek]

Another idea would be to have badges in green and red.

@niels9001
Can we keep alphabetic order when moving between on and off section and can we give these section headers like Enabled Toys and Disabled Toys? I worry that this might confuse users because the order changes unexpectedly.

[Zecr]

Would this help as visuals?

Have 2 different concepts here

[Zecr]

Sorry, I'm not used to Github and pressed wrong button

[htcfreek]

@Zecr
Now seeing the visuals I think the first one with the order is more logical. But why do we have two lines?

I think we could make something like this:

General
---
<activated toys>
---
<disabled toys>

For the badges I think we should green ones for enabled toys and that's it. No numbers and no vadges on disabled ones. (I think if we have badges there is no need for the lines. Instead we could simply add a space between toys and general page.)

[Zecr]

Yes, that's what the 2 lines are for, to separate the activated ones and the non-activated ones. I'm not sure if that's the best way to show which ones are activated. But the idea is that as soon as the user clicks the toggle button, the list item jumps to the section between the lines.

Mouse and file explorer stays with general settings in one section as those are the only ones with multiple sub-toggles

[niels9001]

Quick proto with using NavigationViewItemHeader:

• File explorer / mouse utils would show up in the 'actiivated' list if 1 or more sub-modules are enabled.
• The disabled modules could be (auto) collapsible if the list of modules keeps growing :)

[Zecr]

That looks great. I thought that adding headers to the list would be difficult and didn't use it in my visual but guess I shouldn't have assumed.

[htcfreek]

Quick proto with using NavigationViewItemHeader:

• File explorer / mouse utils would show up in the 'actiivated' list if 1 or more sub-modules are enabled.
• The disabled modules could be (auto) collapsible if the list of modules keeps growing :)

I love it. But I think we should not collaps the disabled ones to show all of them to new users.

[crutkas]

We need search at the top if we have the location adjust I think.

[Jay-o-Way]

a) Can see which ones are activated at a glance

The new pop-up has this, in a way. (left-)Click on the PT icon in the tray and:

[Zecr]

Completed in Release v0.75.0 via Dashboard