Mark Lawrence added the comment:
I've never felt the need for these shortcuts but what do the rest of you guys
think about it?
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Steve Dower added the comment:
Not going to happen. The desktop is for users, not installers, and apps
installing shortcuts all over it is one of the reasons we got the Start Screen
in Windows 8 (where only users can add items - no way for installers to do it).
Besides, such an option would
Daniel Swanson popcorn.tomato.d...@gmail.com added the comment:
What's the start menu?
hahaha
I think that this issue is pointless, it takes 3 clicks to make a desktop
shortcut (if have a lot of programs on your computer, maybe 4) any Windows user
should know how to do it.
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Daniel Swanson popcorn.tomato.d...@gmail.com added the comment:
Never mind. I think I used the start menu to do it myself.
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Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment:
Is it really the case that novice users fail to understand the Start menu?
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Changes by Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr:
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Daniel Swanson popcorn.tomato.d...@gmail.com added the comment:
I am using windows and as I recall, it installed a desktop shortcut for me. but
I could be wrong.
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New submission from Jeff Dean python.x@xoxy.net:
Spun off from Issue3561:
I recently saw Brian Curtin's Pycon 2012 presentation. If a goal is to make it
easy for new Windows users to run python, consider (optionally) installing a
desktop shortcut. This would make it easy for new users
