Windows 10 Start Menu Pinned Enhancements - or something

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Windows 10 Start Menu Pinned Enhancements - or something #649

Open notNSANE opened 8 years ago

notNSANE commented 8 years ago

I thought this was only available to UWX apps but it seems that the guys from EA know better!

Also could synergy (?) with MRU lists.

They also managed to color the background of the Pinned .exe

Again, this isn't a UWX, I manually added Origin to the Start Menu.

fasterthanlime commented 8 years ago

Gotta check which of those is supported by http://electron.atom.io/

The "tasks list" is definitely something I've seen in the docs, not sure about tile color

smiley commented 8 years ago

The color can be specified in a VisualElementsManifest.xml file. After you add that, you have to refresh the shortcut to trigger a Start menu cache update. (Setting the date modified property to now should work)

fasterthanlime commented 8 years ago

After you add that, you have to refresh the shortcut to trigger a Start menu cache update.

This is done by electron on every update, so it should work out fine for us? The startup folder changes every time though. We could probably get it working with a bit of fiddling but I suspect Squirrel.Windows is going to support it sooner or later. The problem with adding a file into the install folder is that it requires providing a custom nuget manifest - that's only possible by forking grunt-electron-installer at the moment :(