Dev documentation of SettingsV2 (#7335 )

* created a folder for settings and added an overview, hotkey information

* basic structure for communication between settings and runner

* Added information about the IPC communication between settings and runner

* Added information about the communication between the settings process and modules

* Added details on backward compatibility

* brief overview on settings utils

* added an overview of the viewmodels and anomalies

* minor modifications

* Settings v2 dev docs (#7334)

* Added settings architecture and tech stack dev docs

* Added telemetry and updated architecture docs for settings v2

* Fix image link in ui_architecture markdown

* Added table of contents for settings v2

* Correct file path for ui architecture image

* nit fix in table of contents heading

* Add doc for xaml island tweaks

Co-authored-by: Divyansh Srivastava <somm14divi@gmail.com>

2020-10-20 14:28:06 -07:00

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UI Architecture

The UI code is distributed between two projects: Microsoft.PowerToys.Settings.UI.Runner and Microsoft.PowerToys.Settings.UI. Microsoft.PowerToys.Settings.UI.Runner is a WPF .net core application. It contains the parent display window and corresponding code is present in MainWindow.xaml. Microsoft.PowerToys.Settings.UI is UWP applications and contains views for base navigation and modules. Fig 1 provides a description of the UI controls hierarchy and each of the controls have been summarized below :

MainWindow.xaml is the parent WPF control.
WindowsXamlHost control is used to host UWP control to MainWindow.xaml parent control.
ShellPage.xaml is a UWP control, consisting of a side navigation panel with an icon for each module. Clicking on a module icon loads the corresponding setting.json file and displays the data in the UI.

Fig 1: UI Architecture for settingsv2

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