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Cannot create desktop shortcut for profiles in Brave Settings #3914

Open stevenmchoi opened 5 years ago

stevenmchoi commented 5 years ago

Description

I'm transitioning from Chrome to Brave, and I use multiple profiles from my desktop, opening them with desktop shortcuts. However, in my Brave profile settings, when I turn on "Show desktop shortcut", no shortcut is created. Refreshing the page will show it switched back off.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Create a Brave profile.
  2. Go to: chrome://settings/manageProfile
  3. Turn on "Show desktop shortcut".
  4. Refresh.

Actual result:

  1. No shortcut on desktop for profile.
  2. "Show desktop shortcut" is off. brave_profile_shortcut

Expected result:

  1. Brave shortcut on desktop
  2. "Show desktop shortcut" remains on.

Reproduces how often:

Always

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave 0.61.52 Chromium: 73.0.3683.86 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision f9b0bec6063ea50ce2b71f5b9abbae7beee319a6-refs/branch-heads/3683@{#858}
OS Windows 10 OS Build 17134.590

Reproducible on current release:

Website problems only:

Additional Information

I'm creating this issue so that it can be fix in the Brave Dev build and also in case others are looking for it. For now, I'll be using the beta version

LaurenWags commented 5 years ago

+1 from a couple users on https://community.brave.com/t/simple-request-desktop-shortcuts-for-individual-profiles/68772

Note - macOS doesn't have this functionality now, so when this gets fixed it would be great if it could be added to macOS.

sougat818 commented 4 years ago

+1

wwboynton commented 3 years ago

For anyone spelunking: It seems like Brave auto-creates these shortcuts in AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\ImplicitAppShortcuts on Windows. I was able to dig up one of those and pin it to my taskbar. If you right click, you can see it's just a shortcut using the --profile-directory= flag, with Default, Profile1, etc. lining up with the folders where profile data is stored in AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data. I hope this is helpful to someone on Windows trying to get a new shortcut pinned for an existing profile, since it seems like Brave only creates these shortcuts at the time of creation of a new profile.

JayBeavers commented 3 years ago

+1, this is an issue for Manjaro / Gnome as well as OSX.

LnxGnome commented 3 years ago

+1 on macOS

dswapnil104 commented 3 years ago

+1 on linux / Gnome

jonathanstiansen commented 2 years ago

Is this a big challenge? I assume all the parts exist, and it's just about integrating them? Maybe I'm wrong?

nikolov9996 commented 2 years ago

Not working at the moment, the switch is missing :/

MitchSchwartz commented 1 year ago

+1 on mac, quite shocking this isn't available

hedonnn commented 1 year ago

+1 on Linux Mint. Come on.

satheshshiva commented 1 year ago

+1 mac os

jonathanbodart commented 1 year ago

+1 MacOS

MrRTi commented 1 year ago
OleksandrHo commented 8 months ago
daviesgeek commented 6 months ago

+1 for macOS

himanshu634 commented 5 months ago

+1 for macOS

Adamantt777 commented 2 months ago

For anyone spelunking: It seems like Brave auto-creates these shortcuts in AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\ImplicitAppShortcuts on Windows. I was able to dig up one of those and pin it to my taskbar. If you right click, you can see it's just a shortcut using the --profile-directory= flag, with Default, Profile1, etc. lining up with the folders where profile data is stored in AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data. I hope this is helpful to someone on Windows trying to get a new shortcut pinned for an existing profile, since it seems like Brave only creates these shortcuts at the time of creation of a new profile.

It would be very useful to have a button with the option to manually create shortcuts on windows desktop, for each profile and their color circle set, if we decide to change the color, how can we re create a new shortcut? so then the brave icon will show the little color circle and open the browser with the especific profile. Please give to the people the option to manually create its profiles shortcuts.

LunaticoCR commented 2 months ago

+1

I tried to make this work with --profile-directory on macOS but it didn't work.

Adamantt777 commented 2 months ago

There is a toggle buttom to create shortcuts for windows desktop on the Brave profiles settings, it is bellow the colors circles selection at the very bottom.

JulesMichael commented 2 months ago

I tried to make this work with --profile-directory on macOS but it didn't work.

Running this works for me on MacOs. What have you tried ?

/Applications/Brave\ Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave\ Browser --profile-directory="Profile 3"
LunaticoCR commented 2 months ago 
/Applications/Brave\ Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave\ Browser --profile-directory="Profile 3"

I did try this @JulesMichael but what this does for me is it opens a new window with a new tab on the specified profile. What I want is different. Basically I have two profiles (Work and Personal) each running on their own window each with multiple tabs open. What I want is a command that lets me open or bring to the front just one of the windows so I can hook that to one of my keyboard special keys. So I could press special key 1 to bring up Personal profile window and special key 2 to bring up Work profile window.