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Whisky-App / Whisky

A modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI
https://getwhisky.app
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[Feature]: Add uninstaller (ability to remove *everything* Whisky has added, including the Bottles) #411

Open rxhfcy opened 11 months ago

rxhfcy commented 11 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Some new users will try Whisky but then abandon it for some reason, and not realize that Whisky and the bottles take up surprisingly much disk space (gigabytes).

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be good customer service to offer an easy way to uninstall everything Whisky has added, including the Bottles (with scary warnings of course).

There's already a partial uninstaller, but it still leaves behind the (from now on invisible) Bottles behind, potentially wasting dozens of Gigabytes of disk space from users who no longer have Whisky installed.

Anything else?

Nope. Thanks for considering this.

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rxhfcy commented 11 months ago

This is especially relevant if the soon-to-be ex-user is about to leave behind forgotten removed (but not "deleted") Bottles, and doesn't realize that the abandoned bottle files are probably going to waste (dozens of?) gigabytes of disk space until the end of time.

IsaacMarovitz commented 11 months ago

@rxhfcy I appreciate your feedback but I would appreciate it if you condense more into a single issue, the number open right now is a little comical 😆

rxhfcy commented 11 months ago

I definitely know what you mean! I guess I just had a lot to say. In any case, I like Whisky and was honestly trying to be as helpful as possible.

Also, I already tried to condense them a little bit, but I thought these were all separate (and valid) issues. Also, this seems to be a matter of preference: in other projects, I've seen warnings to specifically avoid condensing several different things into a single issue.

But of course when in Rome etc. and I'm open to feedback on which issues to close / condense. Or feel free to condense them yourself if it helps organize things better.

PS. Admittedly, I seriously pondered whether I should slowly drip-feed the issues, one new issue per week or something to not annoy you, but in the end I decided to just "rip the band-aid". :)

rxhfcy commented 11 months ago

@IsaacMarovitz Also: there are currently only 54 open Whisky issues in GitHub, which is NOT a large number for a project as popular as Whisky (almost 5000 stars and growing).

And please don't take my sudden barrage of issues as a sign of disrespect or something negative like that. Quite the contrary. I just wanted to give my feedback before the upcoming macOS Sonoma 14 release, which will surely bring even more Whisky connoisseurs in the future. Please keep up the excellent work!

becauseim commented 9 months ago

but eventually the ability to uninstall programs is added to Whisky?