Windows specific- Session Desktop quality of life requests

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Recommendation for optimal user experience on windows:

• When installing Session desktop, Offer app to pin to task bar, or start menu on install. This is a pretty standard Windows setting, and every time you install Session, it will remove the old task bar icon. So it would be ideal if when installing it replaced it, or offered it after each update. As it is deleted after each update.

• Keep on in system tray should be default on, not often do people use a messaging application, and then close it every time they stop using it actively, as you will generally be waiting for a reply, or a call. It seems like the default should be on, rather than off for new users to have an optimal experience.

• This was mentioned in a different feature request, but start on boot, would be great, this is something that usually comes up on install. (I put it here also, to bring all the windows improvements requests together)

Thanks team :)

[KeeJef]

Yeah i'd like to do this as part of some upcoming onboarding changes, this would probably help boost app usage as well

[Bilb]

About the first one

it will remove the old task bar icon

this looks to be a not so resolve issue with electron-builder https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/2514 Looks like some people tried some stuff but it created other bugs. It would be nice to give for instance a build done with allowToChangeInstallationDirectory: false a try to see how that goes. Might not be an easy fix looking at how many people still have it on that issue link above.

Keep on in system tray should be default on Easy to do. Keeping that issue as good first issue for that case

auto start on boot looks like electron does it badly and another package does it reliably: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46318177/how-to-use-auto-launch-to-start-app-on-system-startup

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Keep on in system tray should be default on

:100: that's sane defaults for all platforms actually, would love it on Linux as well!

[KeeJef]

Tracking request 1st and 3rd request via SES-2302

[KeeJef]

Tracking 2nd request via SES-2303