#2811 closed enhancement (fixed)
Reduce number of Start menu shortcuts on MS Windows
| Reported by: | wenzeslaus | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 7.0.3 |
| Component: | Packaging | Version: | svn-releasebranch70 |
| Keywords: | start menu, shortcut, user-friendly, WinGRASS | Cc: | |
| CPU: | Unspecified | Platform: | MSWindows 8 |
Description
Typing "grass" on Win 8 and Win 10 gives 4 entries for one installed GRASS GIS version. The entries are:
- GRASS GIS GUI
- GRASS GIS CLI
- GRASS GIS Website
- GRASS GIS Release Notes
The actual order is usually much worse than what is above, so it is pretty hard to find the think user wants to use.
I suggest to leave just the "GRASS GIS GUI" entry. The Release Notes link doesn't go to any release notes anyway. If we want to promote the Website link we can put it to the Help menu in GUI as many other projects do. And the CLI-only version is not really need. If somebody want to use CLI-only GRASS, he or she is already using Linux.
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Change History (7)
follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 8 years ago
comment:2 by , 8 years ago
follow-up: 4 comment:3 by , 8 years ago
I finished modifications in trunk, see menu for standalone install attachment:grass71-win.png and just one item in OSGeo4W menu in the case of OSGeo4W framework attachment:grass71-osgeo.png.
If no objections I will do backport to rel70.
comment:4 by , 8 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
First attempt done in r66925. I will check next build. I left in the start menu only one item - "Launch GRASS GIS", nothing else.