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Naming of Installer / Updater for Win10 users #1876

Open nothingismagick opened 2 years ago

nothingismagick commented 2 years ago

We have heard reports over at https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri that users actually REFUSE to update Edge, because it isn't clear to them that the requesting app needs it. Since they canceled, the app won't run.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/2806#issuecomment-952055696

AB#36866584

champnic commented 2 years ago

Hey @nothingismagick - in this instance I assume the installer wasn't being run with the /silent flag because the app wasn't being installed as admin? We are adding support for installing unelevated soon, which should unblock using the /silent flag when unelevated. Do you think that would solve this for you?

nothingismagick commented 2 years ago

It may indeed solve the problem, yes. @amrbashir what do you think?

amrbashir commented 2 years ago

Yeah, unelevated installation would fix our problem at Tauri, but I am curious why it is called Windows Edge Update or EdgeUpdate.exe (can't remember exactly) in the first place and not Windows Webview2 installation ? renaming is still a plus on top of the unelevated installation so it adds more clarity to users who choose to use the elevated one.

champnic commented 2 years ago

It's the same updater that updates both Microsoft Edge and WebView2. I agree it's a reasonable ask to have it differentiated more when presented to users to avoid confusion, so I've added this bug to our backlog. Thanks!