[Settings] Modules are incorrectly sorted in the English version

[PesBandi]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.77.0

Installation method

GitHub, PowerToys auto-update

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

Settings

Steps to reproduce

Look at the left pane. It is not correctly sorted.

✔️ Expected Behavior

Color Picker should be before Command Not Found.

❌ Actual Behavior

No response

Other Software

No response

[sanidhyas3s]

Would try to work on this!

[Jay-o-Way]

Hi @sanidhyas3s that sounds great! Changing the order of these two items is easy. If you think of tackling the order of all the menu items, what would be your plan to solve this? I think it's more complicated than it seems, because some modules are translated and some ar not.

[sanidhyas3s]

@Jay-o-Way To sort based on the module names in the language being used. Can there be an issue in that?

[Jay-o-Way]

The larger issue is #23763. So if wou want to try that, I would consider this issue a part of that.
#12388 is also about the menu, but is too broad for this.

[sanidhyas3s]

Ok, would first need to finish setting up PowerToys in Visual Studio, then would try solving it. Any help to speed things up would be nice!

[Jay-o-Way]

@sanidhyas3s Nice. The project is big and there's a big list to be done to prepare. Looking at your profile, I assume you know the basics. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/doc%2Fdevdocs%2Freadme.md will help you on your way. The navigation is in src/settings-ui/Settings.UI/SettingsXAML/Views/ShellPage.xaml

[sanidhyas3s]

@Jay-o-Way Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but after having set-up PowerToys/Visual Studio, after making some test changes to the code and building PowerToys (or just the settings) from the sln doesn't reflect the changes in the .exe produced (or the settings window that opens in the debug mode). Am I missing something or doing something wrong?

[Jay-o-Way]

@sanidhyas3s

1. Make sure you have the latest version in your repository and branch. Your main branch is 730 commits behind microsoft/PowerToys:main.
2. Don't know what your approach in the code is - got a link to your branch? - but if the change is "valid", you should be able to see it when Debugging. How do you test it? Changing your OS or App language?

[sanidhyas3s]

@Jay-o-Way The repo is updated, just my online fork isn't, that is not the issue anyways.

What I meant by test changes was just random changes like changing the order of items manually in ShellPage.xaml to check if the changes I am making are getting reflected in x64\Release\PowerToys.exe, but they are not for some reason.

This is exactly what I am doing:

• Open PowerToys.sln in Visual Studio.
• Select Release in Solutions Configurations and PowerToys.Settings in Startup Projects
• Hitting the play button adjacent to these settings.
• PowerToys settings open up after build completion automatically, but no changes reflected.

Also alternatively building using Build>Build Solution and then running x64\Release\PowerToys.exe give me the same results.

Can you please help me here, new to Visual Studio and using solutions to compile applications.

[Aaron-Junker]

Does the compilation succeed? You can also build just the settings projects and see if that helps.

[sanidhyas3s]

@Aaron-Junker I do have 10 errors displaying after compilation, but the Build finishes.

These are the errors:

Also I am currently building with "Release".
I guess I had to build with "Debug" selected, wasn't mentioned clearly in the readme.
Nevermind, changes reflect now, will try to get this solved now asap.

Again, sorry for filling up the issue discussion with my doubts.

[sanidhyas3s]

I have solved this (can verify, atleast for English).

I would like to test if this works for other languages, though I am not sure how can I do that, if I change my system language preferences, the actual PowerToys (the one I installed normally) does change its display language, but not the one I am building and running.

[crutkas]

Hi all, sorry but this is intentionally by design.