[Qgis-user] Rogue start menu shortcut
Paul Wittle
paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk
Fri May 24 01:11:50 PDT 2019
Hi,
It turns out that it has already been reported as a bug but I can't see how to upvote it or add details of my install version etc to the bug report.
See Bug report #20890
Is anyone on this group in the development groups and able to tell me the status of this bug report? Has it even been read and is it really not a quick fix? Would I be correct in thinking there needs to be a switch added to a function in the winToast dependency to fix it?
Thanks,
Paul
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From: Paul Wittle
Sent: 24 May 2019 08:56
To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: Rogue start menu shortcut (Fernando M. Roxo da Motta)
Hi,
This is nothing to do with the recently used program settings. Firstly, I don't have that setting enabled anyway and secondly those settings show icons at the top of the start menu but they don't create a physical shortcut file in the start menu folder structure.
This is much more likely to be a bug in the application as I'm almost 100% certain that it is QGIS creating the file and not Windows.
Given this is a user group I might just raise it as a bug and see if any of the developers have noticed it as well.
Thanks,
Paul
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 15:35:38 -0300
From: "Fernando M. Roxo da Motta" <petro at roxo.org>
To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Rogue start menu shortcut
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On Thu, 23 May 2019 11:43:18 +0000, Paul Wittle <paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk> wrote:
I am not a Windows user, but I know that there is a configuration to
show recently used programs in start menu. I think it can be
disabled, if one use the procedure to activate and simply uncheck the option.
See:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start/view-recently-used-programs-in-start-menu-in/bdb1e28b-31f6-460d-9714-82c00c5e0f01
HTH
> Hi,
>
> Yes it is Windows 10 and definitely nothing to do with the installer.
> The closest I came to tracking it down was that the wintoast module
> creates a parameter storing a path which is almost right (it actually
> writes to the user profile but other than that it is the same path)
> and it also creates a parameter for the file extension *.lnk.
>
> I don’t think it is anything to do with Windows itself as I’m not
> aware of any other application which does this; it appears to be
> creating the link as part of the load procedures.
>
> Icons do appear in the recently used section automatically but this is
> creating a physical file with the extension *.lnk and as far as I can
> tell; wintoast is the only bit of code which is aimed at Windows users
> and has the concept of a *.lnk file (shortcut).
>
> Paul
>
> From: Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>
> Sent: 23 May 2019 12:34
> To: Paul Wittle <paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk>
> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Rogue start menu shortcut
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Are you using Windows 10? I have seen that happen on a Windows 10 VM.
> The good part is that it's not related to QGIS installer, it's
> something Windows creates (like a recently used program). The bad part
> is that I was not able to avoid it... :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 12:13 PM Paul Wittle
> <paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk<mailto:paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov
> .uk>>
> wrote: Hi,
>
> My install of QGIS 3 (LTR) keeps adding a shortcut to the start menu
> every time I load the application. I can literally delete the shortcut
> then open QGIS and watch it create the icon again.
>
> Does anyone know how to stop it doing this; it is frankly just
> annoying when applications change the start menu on load rather than
> keeping that short of thing to the installer?
>
> I already have the shortcuts I need so this is just adding back a
> duplicate entry I can’t remove.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 15:53:39 -0300
From: "Fernando M. Roxo da Motta" <petro at roxo.org>
To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Rogue start menu shortcut
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On Thu, 23 May 2019 15:35:38 -0300, "Fernando M. Roxo da Motta"
<petro at roxo.org> wrote:
It seems that it can be reached in the config>customization>start.
> On Thu, 23 May 2019 11:43:18 +0000, Paul Wittle
> <paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk> wrote:
>
> I am not a Windows user, but I know that there is a configuration to
> show recently used programs in start menu. I think it can be
> disabled, if one use the procedure to activate and simply uncheck the
> option.
>
> See:
> https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start/vie
> w-recently-used-programs-in-start-menu-in/bdb1e28b-31f6-460d-9714-82c0
> 0c5e0f01
>
>
> HTH
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yes it is Windows 10 and definitely nothing to do with the
> > installer. The closest I came to tracking it down was that the
> > wintoast module creates a parameter storing a path which is almost
> > right (it actually writes to the user profile but other than that it
> > is the same path) and it also creates a parameter for the file
> > extension *.lnk.
> >
> > I don’t think it is anything to do with Windows itself as I’m not
> > aware of any other application which does this; it appears to be
> > creating the link as part of the load procedures.
> >
> > Icons do appear in the recently used section automatically but this
> > is creating a physical file with the extension *.lnk and as far as I
> > can tell; wintoast is the only bit of code which is aimed at Windows
> > users and has the concept of a *.lnk file (shortcut).
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > From: Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>
> > Sent: 23 May 2019 12:34
> > To: Paul Wittle <paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk>
> > Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Rogue start menu shortcut
> >
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > Are you using Windows 10? I have seen that happen on a Windows 10
> > VM. The good part is that it's not related to QGIS installer, it's
> > something Windows creates (like a recently used program). The bad
> > part is that I was not able to avoid it... :-(
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 12:13 PM Paul Wittle
> > <paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk<mailto:paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.g
> > ov.uk>>
> > wrote: Hi,
> >
> > My install of QGIS 3 (LTR) keeps adding a shortcut to the start menu
> > every time I load the application. I can literally delete the
> > shortcut then open QGIS and watch it create the icon again.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to stop it doing this; it is frankly just
> > annoying when applications change the start menu on load rather than
> > keeping that short of thing to the installer?
> >
> > I already have the shortcuts I need so this is just adding back a
> > duplicate entry I can’t remove.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul
> >
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> Roxo
>
Roxo
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