CmdPal: Plain text viewer and image viewer IContent [Experiment]

[jiripolasek]

Summary of the Pull Request

This ii a bit ahead of its time. I need as part of yet another PoC, but it’s best to keep it separate.

This PR introduces new types of IContent:

• Plain text content – simple and straightforward, with options to switch between UI and monospace fonts and toggle word wrap.
  • It's super safe to display any random text content without having to worry about escaping the pesky markdown.
• Image viewer content – a more polished way to display images:
  • When placed in the ContentPage, the component automatically resizes to fit the viewport, ensuring the entire image is visible at once.
  • Images can be opened in a built-in mini-viewer that lets you view, pan, and zoom without leaving the Command Palette. (Doing this directly on the page proved to be a UX and development headache.) Fully keyboard-controllable, so there’s no need to take your hands off the keys.

Pictures? Pictures!

Plain text content:

Image viewer content:

Recording.2025-11-29.064042.mp4

PR Checklist

• Closes: CmdPal: New content block for plain text (PlainTextContent) #41038

• Communication: I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected
• Tests: Added/updated and all pass
• Localization: All end-user-facing strings can be localized
• Dev docs: Added/updated
• New binaries: Added on the required places
  • JSON for signing for new binaries
  • WXS for installer for new binaries and localization folder
  • YML for CI pipeline for new test projects
  • YML for signed pipeline
• Documentation updated: If checked, please file a pull request on our docs repo and link it here: #xxx

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... in a clone of the [email protected]:jiripolasek/PowerToys.git repository
on the feature/41038-cmdpal-moar-content branch (ℹ️ how do I use this?):

curl -s -S -L 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/check-spelling/check-spelling/c635c2f3f714eec2fcf27b643a1919b9a811ef2e/apply.pl' |
perl - 'https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/actions/runs/19779793930/attempts/1' &&
git commit -m 'Update check-spelling metadata'

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# Warning, while `(?i)` is very neat and fancy, if you have some binary files that aren't proper unicode, you might run into:
# ... Operation "substitution (s///)" returns its argument for non-Unicode code point 0x1C19AE (the code point will vary).
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(?:(?:\w|\s|[,.])*\b(?i)(?:amet|consectetur|cursus|dolor|eros|ipsum|lacus|libero|ligula|lorem|magna|neque|nulla|suscipit|tempus)\b(?:\w|\s|[,.])*)

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