[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)
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? -- components: +Windows nosy: +BreamoreBoy, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware versions: +Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14672 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)
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 be off by default, which means you're probably looking at more than three clicks to enable it in the installer. Users can easily pin it to the taskbar or copy the shortcut to the desktop, and admins can push out a shortcut to all users on their network if they like. Either option is better than the installer doing it. -- resolution: - rejected status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14672 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)
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. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14672 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)
Daniel Swanson popcorn.tomato.d...@gmail.com added the comment: Never mind. I think I used the start menu to do it myself. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14672 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)
Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de added the comment: Is it really the case that novice users fail to understand the Start menu? -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14672 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)
Changes by Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr: -- nosy: +brian.curtin ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14672 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)
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. -- nosy: +weirdink13 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14672 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)
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 to run python (easier than starting up a shell). This does not require the path to be modified. The installer could also (optionally) add a shortcut for starting up a command interpreter with the path modified (for just that shortcut), in case command line access is needed. This would not be necessary if the python being installed is added to the path. The first shortcut would be enabled by default, to help truly novice users. Other users could turn it off, or just delete the shortcut. -- components: Installation messages: 159355 nosy: jdigital priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s) type: enhancement ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue14672 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
