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Cross platform menu item installation
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Deprecate Windows "quicklaunch" support (at least disable it by default) ? #244

Closed jypeter closed 2 weeks ago

jypeter commented 3 months ago

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What is the idea?

I have been wondering about the AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch/Launch Turtle.lnk that is listed when I install my json file (as shown in https://github.com/conda/menuinst/issues/240#issuecomment-2263194033)

I have found the quicklaunch option and I can disable the creation by using "win": {"quicklaunch": false}. But was is this for? I can understand the desktop option (create a desktop icon in addition to the Start Menu item) but what was this Internet Explorer related stuff, when Microsoft is now using Edge

Most relevant thing I have found was the How to Add the Quick Launch Toolbar in Windows 10 page, and I was indeed able to display the Turtle quicklaunch icon by using %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch at step 3

But that's mostly useless and the page above says that this has been gone since Windows 7

Why is this needed?

Quicklaunch support is not needed because:

The minimal thing to do would be to set the quicklaunch default to false

What should happen?

Get rid of this or disable it by default

Additional Context

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