pkg-apt: handle Start Menu & Desktop links

[maphew]

see if we can grab the desktop and startmenu .lnk paths during postinstall and stuff them in etc/postinstall/setup/pkg-foo.gz so they're automatically removed when uninstalled.

[maphew]

This is the apt correspendent for ticket #21 "support for localized start menu".

One solution is to use win32com, but that is a big dependancy to add.

from win32com.shell import shell
shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath(0,shellcon.CSIDL_COMMON_STARTMENU)

-- ​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2216173/how-to-get-path-of-start-menus-programs-directory

An alternate solution using ctypes was suggested by Luke Pinner of Australia, but I don't know yet if it will work on localized systems. Can I get some testers to run the attached script?

[maphew]

use ctypes to list Windows' special folders

[jmckenna]

I've run this ticket's python script, on a Windows7 machine in Japanese language, and here is the results:

C:\OSGeo4W\apps\test>ctypes-special-folders.py
35 - AllUsersApplicationData = C:\ProgramData
0 - Desktop = C:\Users\jeff\Desktop
21 - Templates = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates
19 - NetHood = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts

22 - AllUsersStartMenu = C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
6 - Favorites = C:\Users\jeff\Favorites
9 - SendTo = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
26 - ApplicationData = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Roaming
28 - LocalSettingsApplicationData = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Local
27 - PrintHood = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Printer Shortcu
ts
2 - Programs = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Progra
ms
20 - Fonts = C:\Windows\Fonts
23 - AllUsersPrograms = C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
11 - StartMenu = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
25 - AllUsersDesktop = C:\Users\Public\Desktop
31 - AllUsersFavorites = C:\Users\jeff\Favorites
14 - MyVideos = C:\Users\jeff\Videos
33 - Cookies = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies
13 - MyMusic = C:\Users\jeff\Music
7 - Startup = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Program
s\Startup
34 - LocalSettingsHistory = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Histor
y
5 - MyDocuments = C:\Users\jeff\Documents
24 - AllUsersStartup = C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Star
tup
32 - LocalSettingsTemporaryInternetFiles = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Local\Microsoft
\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
8 - Recent = C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent

[maphew]

Jeff do those correspond to what you see in Windows Explorer? For example does C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs exist? I had hoped to see kanji or accented characters. (I've never seen a localized asian language computer before, so don't know what it looks like at the file/folder level.Maybe my expectation is erroneous.)

[jmckenna]

Yes they correspond to what I see in Windows Explorer. (this test VM is a Windows7-Japan install, with English language character support installed...and before i installed the english support I could still see the usual paths in Windows Explorer)

[maphew]

Luke Pinner's module in svn as winspecialfolders.py, and is now used by apt.py (r1138). It should probably be put in pythonpath somewhere so it could be available to other programs. I don't know where's the best place for it.

[maphew]

Implemented in r1151. Works for me, but definitely should get more testing, especially in collaborative mode: e.g. if package is installed with apt, does uninstalling with setup.exe also delete the menu and desktop links? The file path convention for links are windows and absolute (C:\o4w\etc) while the rest are unix and relative (etc/).

Just the necessary part of Luke's winspecialfolders.py is embedded, to keep it in a single file.

[maphew]

this has been working well for quite awhile and no issues reported, so I'm closing the ticket.