Add Quick tasks to Start Menu and task bar

[Jay-o-Way]

📝 Provide a description of the new feature

I would like to suggest to add quick tasks to the shortcut in Start Menu for the PowerToys icon, for quick acces to toys like Color Picker, FZ Editor or other (future) things. suggestions are welcome
Existing examples:

Firefox

CCleaner

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[Jay-o-Way]

These can also be placed in the context menu of PT on the task bar.
Don't know if they are connected by default or that they would have to be set manually?

[bonzibudd]

@Jay-o-Way Both lists use the same code. It's a standard Jump list item which defines links associated with the program.

[enricogior]

Notes to dev:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl_core/nn-shobjidl_core-icustomdestinationlist
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.UI.StartScreen.JumpList?view=winrt-19041

[Jay-o-Way]

The two examples of CCleaner and Firefox will start up and then do/show something specific, according to the selected quick task.

Many power toys are not allowed to run as stand-alone apps. That means that all of Powertoys (runner) will need to be started, if it's not running yet. This means a relatively long start-up time if you only want one of the toys - for example Color Picker. Is this start-up time acceptable/inevitable, or is there a way to work around this? Maybe a sort of /background parameter, after which "only" the selected toy is opened?

Or else, the individual toys would have to be able to run stand-alone. Then each quick task has a link to one of the toys (executables).

[Jay-o-Way]

@niels9001 #6538 is related, but not exactly. How would that solution solve the above point of the "standalone" question?

[jrfnl]

Also related: #6751 and a "yes please" from me ;-)

[Jay-o-Way]

Notes to dev:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl_core/nn-shobjidl_core-icustomdestinationlist
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.UI.StartScreen.JumpList?view=winrt-19041

Referencing to WIN32 and UWP at the same time. That's confusing.