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Deprecate Windows "quicklaunch" support (at least disable it by default) ?

Open jypeter opened this issue 6 months ago • 0 comments

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  • [X] I searched open requests and couldn't find a duplicate

What is the idea?

I have been wondering about the AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch/Launch Turtle.lnk that is listed when I install my json file (as shown in https://github.com/conda/menuinst/issues/240#issuecomment-2263194033)

I have found the quicklaunch option and I can disable the creation by using "win": {"quicklaunch": false}. But was is this for? I can understand the desktop option (create a desktop icon in addition to the Start Menu item) but what was this Internet Explorer related stuff, when Microsoft is now using Edge

Most relevant thing I have found was the How to Add the Quick Launch Toolbar in Windows 10 page, and I was indeed able to display the Turtle quicklaunch icon by using %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch at step 3

But that's mostly useless and the page above says that this has been gone since Windows 7

Why is this needed?

Quicklaunch support is not needed because:

  • this is confusing (I lost some time on it)
  • it seems to be obsolete
  • you may want to trim your code by removing this

The minimal thing to do would be to set the quicklaunch default to false

What should happen?

Get rid of this or disable it by default

Additional Context

No response

jypeter avatar Aug 07 '24 11:08 jypeter