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slgobinath / uget-chrome-wrapper

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Setting uGet directory in the options dialog #46

Closed AirQuick closed 6 years ago

AirQuick commented 6 years ago

Feature request (for Windows).

Putting the uGet program path into PATH environment variable is cumbersome. Also, since there are a lot of DLLs in the uGet bin directory, I'm a bit reluctant to include it in PATH.

So, it would be nice if we can specify the uGet program dir (such as c:\program files (x86)\uget) in the options dialog. Then we won't have to touch PATH at all. (Putting Python into PATH is already not necessary today.)

slgobinath commented 6 years ago

Hi, I am little against to adding an option in the extension because it is required only in Windows and it will let people specify different locations. There is more chance of asking support for other download managers too.

There is a discussion going on with uGet Team on providing an installer for uGet that will add a shortcut to uGet in system PATH. If that works, we can overcome this problem. WDYT?

AirQuick commented 6 years ago

Hi Gobinath, Interesting. Can you point me to the discussion thread about the installer?

Anyway, I'm afraid the installer would not help the portable installation introduced in uGet 2.0.6.

slgobinath commented 6 years ago

Hi, The discussion is in mail thread. The portable installation will be still available but the installer will add the uget-gtk.exe to PATH so the wrapper can easily identify it. The installer will also add start menu entry.

slgobinath commented 6 years ago

This problem has been fixed in current development version with the support of a new uGet Windows Installer which is not released yet.

FYI: Please note that uget-chrome-wrapper is merged with uGet. https://github.com/slgobinath/uget-chrome-wrapper/issues/53