Hello all A year ago, Martin Landa raised the issue of the icons and folder which appear on the Windows desktop when installing QGIS (https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2016-March/041810.html). The issues were:
- installers should not add things to a user's desktop without permission (at least, certainly no more than a single application icon, and ideally not even that) - it could be a bit intimidating for a new user to be confronted with eg GRASS/SAGA icons and the oddly-named folder I raised a ticket (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/14463), and Juergen made a commit to change the folder location from the user's desktop to a temp folder (https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/changeset/1296/trunk/setup). However, I continue to use the OSGeo4W installer, and I still get the folder on my desktop (its name is a URL-encoded form of http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w). I delete it each time, and each time I run Setup again, it is recreated. Is this because the installer has saved some config for my setup? I can check by trying to uninstall fully and start again, but I just thought I'd check. Do both the standalone and OSGeo4W installers now leave the desktop alone? Thanks Tom ----- Buy Pie Spy: Adventures in British pastry 2010-11 on Amazon -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-Developer-f4099106.html _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
