[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)

Steve Dower added the comment: Not going to happen. The desktop is for users, not installers, and apps installing shortcuts all over it is one of the reasons we got the Start Screen in Windows 8 (where only users can add items - no way for installers to do it). Besides, such an option would be

[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)

Mark Lawrence added the comment: I've never felt the need for these shortcuts but what do the rest of you guys think about it? -- components: +Windows nosy: +BreamoreBoy, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware versions: +Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)

Daniel Swanson added the comment: What's the start menu? hahaha I think that this issue is pointless, it takes 3 clicks to make a desktop shortcut (if have a lot of programs on your computer, maybe 4) any Windows user should know how to do it. -- _

[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)

Daniel Swanson added the comment: Never mind. I think I used the start menu to do it myself. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)

Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- nosy: +brian.curtin ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.

[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Is it really the case that novice users fail to understand the Start menu? -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)

Daniel Swanson added the comment: I am using windows and as I recall, it installed a desktop shortcut for me. but I could be wrong. -- nosy: +weirdink13 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue14672] Windows installer: add desktop shortcut(s)

New submission from Jeff Dean : Spun off from Issue3561: I recently saw Brian Curtin's Pycon 2012 presentation. If a goal is to make it easy for new Windows users to run python, consider (optionally) installing a desktop shortcut. This would make it easy for new users to run python (easier