Vendor setting has no effect?

[armin-reichert]

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In my build.gradle, I set the vendor property, however in the generated installer I do not see it anywhere. Is this a bug?

[airsquared]

I believe the vendor is only set in the application, not in the installer. The jpackage documentation isn't very clear on this though.

[armin-reichert]

Thanks for answering. But which effect then has specifying vendor = "XYZ" inside the jpackage { } section?

[airsquared]

I apologize, the vendor is actually only set in the installer and not in the application.

You can verify that it is being set by appending the argument --info to your gradle command and checking the shell output of the task jpackage. There will be a log entry that shows the command being sent to jpackage. If the vendor is being set in the jpackage command, then it would be an error with jpackage and not this plugin.

[armin-reichert]

I found out where to set these jpackage parameters:

jpackage {
      appVersion = '1.0'
      description = 'Pac-Man JavaFX (3D version)'
      vendor = 'Armin Reichert'
     ...
}

But only the `appVersion``` parameter seems to have any effect (appears as suffix of the exe-file and in the application installer entry in the Windows apps list)

[vewert]

I create an .msi installer, so it may be different, but I set the vendor as an installerOption, e.g.

jpackage {
    skipInstaller = false
    installerType = "msi"
    imageOptions = listOf(
        "--app-version", "1.0.0",
    )
    installerName = msiInstallerBaseName
    installerOptions = listOf(
        "--vendor", "Ewert Technologies",
        "--win-dir-chooser",
        "--win-menu",
        "--win-shortcut",
        "--win-shortcut-prompt",
        other installer options...
    )
}

Then, in the installer .msi file's properties, I see Ewert Technologies, listed as Authors, in the details tab.

I also see Ewert Technologies listed in the Windows app list.

[armin-reichert]

It seems that the vendor can be set in both ways as shown above. But I dont't see the vendor in the Windows app list (Windows 10 Pro, 22H2).

While we are at it: Do you know what has to be done such that the Windows installer knows the publisher and the security popup doesn't show "Publisher: Unknown"?

[vewert]

I've seen that vendor problem for Windows 10 before. It does, however, seem to work on Windows 11.

I'm not totally sure, but I think the "Verified Publisher" that is displayed in the Security prompt comes from the signing certificate that was used to sign the .msi installer. At least that is what looks to be happening in my case. Are you signing your installer file?