menuinst: cross platform menu item installation

This package provides cross platform menu item installation for conda packages.

If a conda package ships a menuinst JSON document under $PREFIX/Menu, conda will invoke menuinst to process the JSON file and install the menu items in your operating system. The menu items are removed when the package is uninstalled.

The following formats are supported:

• Windows: .lnk files in the Start menu. Optionally, also in the Desktop and Quick Launch.
• macOS: .app bundles in the Applications folder.
• Linux: .desktop files as defined in the XDG standard.

Documentation

Documentation is available at https://conda.github.io/menuinst/.

History

This package was originally developed and maintained by Enthought under the name AppInst. The name appinst is a rename of what used to be called 'wininst'.

menuinst v1 was only supported on Windows. Legacy code existed in v1 for Linux and OS X - use at your own risk. It may mess up your menus.

menuinst v2 is a backwards-compatible rewrite to address cross-platform compatibility under a unified JSON schema, as discussed in CEP-11. The Windows bits of the v1 code are still available under the menuinst._legacy subpackage.

Build status

conda install defaults::menuinst
conda install conda-forge::menuinst
conda install conda-canary/label/dev::menuinst