[QGIS-Developer] Standalone and OSGeo4W installers: icons and folder on desktop

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Tom,

On Mon, 25. Sep 2017 at 06:32:37 -0700, Tom Chadwin wrote:
> - 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)

In now creates a OSGeo4W folder and points postinstall batch files to it via
OSGEO4W_DESKTOP - but not all OSGeo4W packages respect that (eg. QGIS does &
SAGA do, GRASS doesn't).  There also OSGEO4W_DESKTOP_LINKS that tells
postinstall batches whether or not they should create desktop links at all.
 
> 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?

Check last-cache in %OSGEO4W_ROOT%/etc/setup/setup.rc


Jürgen

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