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[CmdPal][Dock] Fix performance meter showing '???' after restart#48682

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[CmdPal][Dock] Fix performance meter showing '???' after restart#48682
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This PR fixes Issue #48680 where the CmdPal dock performance meter shows '???' after restart.

Root cause: The PerformanceWidgetsPage initially returns items with a placeholder title ('???') because ContentData hasn't loaded yet. The DataManager timer starts when the dock subscribes to ItemsChanged, and the Updated event fires 1 second later with real data. However, the Updated event handlers were updating ListItem.Title directly without calling RaiseItemsChanged() on the page, so the dock was never notified that the items had changed and continued to display the stale '???' title.

Fix: Added a RaiseItemsChanged() call to each of the 5 Updated event handlers (CPU, Memory, Network, GPU, Battery) after the item titles are updated. This causes the dock to re-call GetItems() and refresh the displayed titles.

Fixes #48680

The dock band subscribes to ItemsChanged to trigger Loaded() which starts
the data timer, but the initial GetItems() returns items with '???' titles
from ContentData that hasn't loaded yet. The Updated event handlers updated
the ListItem.Title properties but never called RaiseItemsChanged() to
notify the dock to re-read the items. Add RaiseItemsChanged() calls in
each metric's Updated handler so the UI updates when data arrives.
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@michaeljolley michaeljolley added the Product-Command Palette Refers to the Command Palette utility label Jun 17, 2026
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This PR fixes Issue #48680 where the CmdPal dock performance meter shows
'???' after restart.

**Root cause**: The PerformanceWidgetsPage initially returns items with
a placeholder title ('???') because ContentData hasn't loaded yet. The
DataManager timer starts when the dock subscribes to ItemsChanged, and
the Updated event fires 1 second later with real data. However, the
Updated event handlers were updating ListItem.Title directly without
calling RaiseItemsChanged() on the page, so the dock was never notified
that the items had changed and continued to display the stale '???'
title.

**Fix**: Added a RaiseItemsChanged() call to each of the 5 Updated event
handlers (CPU, Memory, Network, GPU, Battery) after the item titles are
updated. This causes the dock to re-call GetItems() and refresh the
displayed titles.

Fixes #48680

(cherry picked from commit 0d12a62)
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This is almost definitely not the correct fix here

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Yeah, this is definitely not the right fix. We shouldn't need to propagate that all of the items changed just when one of their properties changes. The dock items should be listening to property changes on each of those individual properties So that when the title is changed, the list item should change without us having to rebuild the entire collection of list items.

I suspect as written this will cause some mild flickering of all of the performance items any time one of them changes. Maybe we're lucky and we are caching the objects and doing a comparison on the backing objects so that we don't rebuild new view models for these objects. But this is definitely more work than is needed to fix this problem.

But most importantly, I don't think this actually found the root cause of whatever this problem is.

And given the other set of PRs from this contributor that all seem like they are AI generated without running them locally, I'm inclined to revert this PR blindly.

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@zadjii-msft Thanks for the review — you're right that RaiseItemsChanged() is heavy-handed. The concern about flickering is valid.

Why the merge PR used this approach:

The core issue is that the network band items (_networkUpItem, _networkDownItem) are recreated in GetItems() every time it's called (PerformanceWidgetsPage.cs:254-275), not stored as persistent fields like the other items. So even though ListItem.Title does fire PropChanged (via BaseObservable), the ViewModels wrapping the old instances never receive that notification — they hold stale references.

Calling RaiseItemsChanged() made the dock rebuild everything via InitializeFromList, which happened to work but is indeed the wrong hammer.

The proper fix: Move the network item creation out of GetItems() into the constructor (like CPU/Memory/GPU/Battery), so the fields are stable objects. Then the Title setter → PropChanged chain works natively for all items without any RaiseItemsChanged() calls. Would you like me to open a follow-up PR with that cleaner fix?

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I'd like a human being to make this fix. Show me a screen recording of this fix.

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Issue presists in v0.100.1.
PowerToysReport_2026-06-24-19-15-42.zip
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_cpuPage.Updated += (s, e) =>
{
_cpuItem.Title = _cpuPage.GetItemTitle(isBandPage);
RaiseItemsChanged();

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Thought off the bat: won't this cause excelovaly costly updates all the time? Instead of updating one item title this updates everything?

zadjii-msft added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 24, 2026
…art" (#48835)

Reverts #48682

I'm quite sure that OP did not build or test these changes, and they
should not have merged.
LegendaryBlair pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 26, 2026
…art" (#48835)

Reverts #48682

I'm quite sure that OP did not build or test these changes, and they
should not have merged.

(cherry picked from commit 386a16f)
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