Open jypeter opened 3 months ago
It is also useful (for understanding a bit how menuinst works, and for debugging purpose) to display the paths of the generated/removed links
You could kill 2 birds with one stone by adding a Verbose Usage
section with an example at the end of the Getting started page. Or something similar. Or put this in a FAQ
The example below installs and then removes the turtle minimal example
(base) PS C:\Users\jypeter\menuinst_test> python -c "from menuinst.api import install, remove; import pprint; pth_list = install('./turtle_original.json'); pprint.pprint(pth_list)"
[WindowsPath('C:/Users/jypeter/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Python N.A'),
WindowsPath('C:/Users/jypeter/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Python N.A/Launch Turtle.lnk'),
WindowsPath('C:/Users/jypeter/Desktop/Launch Turtle.lnk'),
WindowsPath('C:/Users/jypeter/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch/Launch Turtle.lnk'),
WindowsPath('C:/Utils/miniconda3_2024-03/Menu/Launch Turtle.bat')]
(base) PS C:\Users\jypeter\menuinst_test> python -c "from menuinst.api import install, remove; import pprint; pth_list = remove('./turtle_original.json'); pprint.pprint(pth_list)"
[WindowsPath('C:/Users/jypeter/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Python N.A/Launch Turtle.lnk'),
WindowsPath('C:/Users/jypeter/Desktop/Launch Turtle.lnk'),
WindowsPath('C:/Users/jypeter/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch/Launch Turtle.lnk'),
WindowsPath('C:/Utils/miniconda3_2024-03/Menu/Launch Turtle.bat'),
WindowsPath('C:/Users/jypeter/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Python N.A')]
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What happened?
It took me some time to find out how to uninstall shortcuts without having to manually remove them from
C:\Users\my_login\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
, on WindowsI created a json file with the turtle Minimal example and I successfully installed the shortcuts using
$ python -c "from menuinst.api import install; install('./turtle.json')"
, as described in UsageI then tried to uninstall this but
$ python -c "from menuinst.api import remove; remove('./turtle.json')"
remove
and notuninstall
, when you have installed withinstall
This can probably be added very easily to the documentation
It would also be useful to be able to remove a menu by just giving the menu name (instead of the json file that you may have lost), but I understand it would not be very safe, on probably would not remove the shortcuts on the desktop
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