[IMPROVEMENT] Add an option to delete desktop shortcut after update/install

[MrMAXVW]

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Describe the improvement

I was using patchmypc all day long before and discover unigetui recently
this is a pretty good software! but one feature I would like to see is adding an option for user to enable 'auto delete shortcut on desktop after installation'
this is pretty useful for some dudes who have OCD lol

Describe how this improvement could help users

for clean desktop users, they dont need to manually delete the shortcut on desktop
and it should be a pretty easy function to add I guess? thanks a lot

[mrixner]

I don't think there's a way to find desktop shortcuts automatically, but my suggestion for this would be to have a file selector in the package details page that allows you to select ANY file - presumably re-added by the package on installation / update - like the desktop .lnk file, that UniGetUI would then delete after an update process. Then, it doesn't require any changes to the package managers and still achieves the intended purpose.

[marticliment]

There could be some pre and post update scan to detect changed .lnk files

[MrMAXVW]

Thanks all, here's a printscreen of Patchmypc. I am not sure how they delete the shortcut but it works pretty well.
I think they did scan the desktop for lnk

[mrixner]

That's a good idea, however in the case of an unrelated .lnk file being added coincidentally to the desktop during installation, for perhaps concurrent installations, I feel there should be a confirmation request the first time it tries to delete a shortcut. Otherwise (because I can't do UI) I would do this right now; this has bothered me for a little while.

Here's what I would recommend - a pre update / post update scan, and if new link files are on and Delete Desktops setting is on, show the user a dialog showing the new link files and ask them to choose which ones to automatically delete in the future.

[Merlin8000]

I loaded up the issues page to ask for exactly this.

[marticliment]

That's a good idea, however in the case of an unrelated .lnk file being added coincidentally to the desktop during installation, for perhaps concurrent installations, I feel there should be a confirmation request the first time it tries to delete a shortcut. Otherwise (because I can't do UI) I would do this right now; this has bothered me for a little while.

That would be an opt-in feature

[mrixner]

That would be an opt-in feature

Delete Desktops setting is on

Of course it would. Mucking with someone's desktop if they didn't ask you to is a terrible idea.