Friendly Name for Windows "Open With" Context Menu

[RoyBeer]

When I tried opening a file via right click, "Open With", I realized the name stretches the context menu into an unsightly mess.

I simply added a .reg file with the following contents to workaround until then, may someone benefit from it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\LosslessCut-win.exe]
"FriendlyAppName"="LosslessCut"

[mifi]

Hi. Where did you download the app from? here on github or app store or somehwere else? I cannot find out how to set "FriendlyAppName" with electron-builder

related: #23 https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/commit/f9e43a3bb4d84976bdc61ebdda6a40e19abba5db

[RoyBeer]

Hi. Where did you download the app from? here on github or app store or somehwere else?

Hey, I downloaded the latest release (3.42.0) from this project's release page.

I cannot find out how to set "FriendlyAppName" with electron-builder

I don't know anything about electron-builder, but from a simple lookup, in which of your files the term the swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing shows up, it might be the /package.json - more specific the description value.

I don't want to presume to suggest a change of your program's choice of description, but maybe it's as simple as that. Or you might want to suggest to the user to change it in a fashion like I did.

related: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/23 https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/commit/f9e43a3bb4d84976bdc61ebdda6a40e19abba5db

Okay, maybe next time I should read the related issue before I write an answer. So yeah, it seems like you just put that description value so it's not empty. With an almost educated guess I would say the "Description" inside that file basically is what Windows then uses as a "FriendlyAppName" inside it's Registry.

Long story short:
"description": "The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing" should be something like "description": "LosslessCut"

Unless of course that value is used differently on another OS?

[mifi]

Yea I thought about changing that, but I was also worried that it's being used some other place. I know it will be used in npm, but because it's not published in npm, that's not an issue.

I think this is rather a bug in electron-builder, because why would it choose the description field as the Open With association.

Need to dig a big more and maybe file an issue at electron-builder. Worst case we can set description to LosslessCut

[shodanx2]

Hello,

I have a feature to suggest. When selecting multiple video files that losslesscut supports (mp4, other ext?)

As secondary context menu option in explorer

"Merge files with losslesscut"

For single files I would like "Cut with Losslesscut"

For multiple files I would like "Cut with Losslesscut" and open each file in its own instance "Merge files with losslesscut" where all the files are open to merge in a single instance

[mifi]

is this still a problem as of the newest version?