Powertoys: Install via Windows Store

[yttrian]

crutkas update 2020.06.17:
you can get this via WinGet
winget install PowerToys

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

The Microsoft Store is a convenient way to install software (like Python 3, WSL distros, Windows Terminal Preview, Spotify, and others) and keep them up to date automatically. I feel bringing PowerToys to the Store would be useful for these reasons.

It's already available via Chocolatey, why not the Store as well?

Thank you.7

[enricogior]

Hi @yttrian
the only reason why it's not in the Microsoft Store yet is that we haven't had the time do it, but we will ;)

[my-life-is-confetti-zz]

Thanks for closing my Dupicarlte of this Issue. I stand FIRMLY behind my statement and request

"Number One; Make It So"...

[enricogior]

Hi @my-life-is-confetti
we are already working on this issue, we didn't have the time and there was also a technical limitation that prevented us to use the Store when we first released the technical preview.
But we are 100% with you on this, we need to have it in the store ASAP.
Thanks.

[my-life-is-confetti-zz]

Thanks for closing my duplicate of this issue. I stand FIRMLY behind my statement and request

"Number One; Make It So"...

[crutkas]

Thanks for closing my duplicate of this issue. I stand FIRMLY behind my statement and request

"Number One; Make It So"...

Remember, we're an open source project, if you feel passionate about this, happy to have you help out :)

[crutkas]

Assigning tentative to 0.16, would love if we can pull this in sooner but this needs other work to be done first.

[banaantjes]

can in powertoys a funcion like sets/tabs in vensters like the old windows 10 insider build.?

[hansmbakker]

@banaantjes please open a new issue for that and please stay on topic in this issue

[my-life-is-confetti-zz]

Yeah, any progress?

Enjoy! 🎈

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It's been a few months, any progress?

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[crutkas]

@my-life-is-confetti, we are working on it. We're testing pretty heavily and are hitting a few issues such as #1135 and #1039. We're working with teams to be sure we're correctly doing the right thing.

The other big push we're doing is #368 which should be in PR be EOW for FancyZone settings. we needed so we can have stuff for Store be right out of the gate.

Other issues that needed to get corrected was #645 and #411.

[crutkas]

update: One major work item, #368 (how we store data for FancyZones) just hit a review. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/1194

[my-life-is-confetti-zz]

Nice. Thank You for the update, and the reasoning. That is well thought out. Yes, folks expect an app to be 100% when it hits the Microsoft Store. It's not supposed to be GitHub for ex.

Enjoy! 🎈

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update: One major work item, #368https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/368 (how we store data for FancyZones) just hit a review. #1194https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pull/1194

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[haakoo]

What's the status for this issue now? Anywhere to se what's left to do?

[crutkas]

MSIX / Store Build Update

We put in a lot of effort here but currently our plan of record is to make the MSI our only installer option and built-in auto-upgrade. MSIX is a great installer / container tech but there are few spots we are working with the team to improve so we can adopt.

[AkazaRenn]

In my opinions auto-upgrade is always the alternative when you cannot use the system's default distribution method. Before Windows 10 we didn't have options, but now Windows Store shall always be considered as the first choice, especially for Chromium Edge.

[charlesroddie]

We put in a lot of effort here but currently our plan of record is to make the MSI our only installer option and built-in auto-upgrade.

Also non-admin install would be needed to get replicate the usability of Store/MSIX.

[crutkas]

We put in a lot of effort here but currently our plan of record is to make the MSI our only installer option and built-in auto-upgrade.

Also non-admin install would be needed to get replicate the usability of Store/MSIX.

working on that right now :)

[TheZoker]

1+ for Windows Store, much more convenient to update and have the latest version of all apps

[yinyue200]

Any news?

[blogcraft]

Windows Store needs urgently to become a First Class citizen. I hope Power Toys gets a home in it very soon.

[wenqiangxie]

Any news?

None. But VSCode team say that they will release MSIX installer after June 2020, may 10 June.

Now VSCode team say MSIX installer still in process, I think it's a good news.

[crutkas]

Store currently requires packaged apps (MSIX). We need the MSIX team to do some additional work which will benefit the developer ecosystem as well.

This is one of our long term goals but until we can get feature parity with the current installer, we are at a bit of a holding pattern

[crutkas]

Also, FYI, you can install via WinGet
winget install powertoys

[TheZoker]

Yes but you can't update it that way

[crutkas]

@TheZoker if PT was more aggressive on auto-updating itself, would that solve your problem?

[TheZoker]

Hmm good question. In my opinion (in an ideal world), winget would install stuff like python, java, php and all those dev packages (without a GUI).
And all other applications (especially with a GUI) would be installed via the Microsoft Store. I know that this is a very unlikly thing to happen, but this would be my goal. And by now I can already install many apps via the Store and I try to convince the devs of all the missing apps, to publish them there.

For python etc. I currently use scoop, which is a very good tool for that. But if winget supports update, uninstall etc. I think I will switch to that.

That's my 2 cents on this topic :)

[crutkas]

@thezoker that is a preference, i personally use scripts to setup my systems a lot. WinGet to set up everything is a life saver

[MatthewSteeples]

Main reason that we're after it is the deployment/update experience. We use InTune so being able to roll out apps via the Store is both an easy deployment method and an easy update method. We can roll out MSIs but then we have to either roll out the updates ourselves or rely on apps updating themselves

[crutkas]

@matthewsteeples, we're working on getting the installer in a better state so we can actually do quiet updates. I think 0.19 actually fixed the explorer restart need so with .20, we may be able to silent update on users :)

[hansmbakker]

and no changes to the main registry, and clean uninstall

[enricogior]

@hansmbakker

and no changes to the main registry, and clean uninstall

There are components that need to be registered in order to work, unless Windows changes that, there is nothing that PowerToys can do about it.

[crutkas]

and no changes to the main registry, and clean uninstall

if we don't uninstall cleanly, please file a bug against us and we'll fix it. Per @enricogior, to do things like shell integration that require registry keys. Under the hood, an MSIX is doing the same thing.

[pronichkin]

So, now that even PowerShell is published to Windows Store, I really hope that more and more barriers are getting worked around over time. Looking forward to see PowerToys in the Store, eventually.

[blacklightpy]

MSI installations lag my PC :(
Also it's not aesthetic to have an installer running on my background and also a notification that keeps asking me to update it.

[Poopooracoocoo]

wow they no longer even provide an msi anymore. no hope for msix. (i mean msix as a packaging technology, not for msix packages for powertoys, to be clear.) the hypocrisy and inconsistency is just on another level at MS

[blacklightpy]

wow they no longer even provide an msi anymore. no hope for msix. (i mean msix as a packaging technology, not for msix packages for powertoys, to be clear.) the hypocrisy and inconsistency is just on another level at MS

Apparently MSIX is not yet ready to handle admin rights, so until that is fixed, Powertoys won't work well as an MSIX distribution.

[Aaron-Junker]

wow they no longer even provide an msi anymore. no hope for msix. (i mean msix as a packaging technology, not for msix packages for powertoys, to be clear.) the hypocrisy and inconsistency is just on another level at MS

Apparently MSIX is not yet ready to handle admin rights, so until that is fixed, Powertoys won't work well as an MSIX distribution.

Whats about that the msix version just wouldnt support this feature? Is that possible?

[enricogior]

@Aaron-Junker

Whats about that the msix version just wouldnt support this feature? Is that possible?

It's not possible. The type of things we do with the msi are currently not supported by msix.