Electron-builder: Windows (Squirrel) Start Menu Category Won't Change from Email Address

[framerate]

• 19.27.2:

• Windows:

    "win": {
            "icon": "build/icon.ico",
            "target": "squirrel",
            "publisherName": "Secret Cow Level"
        },

I thought by reading the documentation that publisherName was what I was missing, but no matter what I do, it seems to use my email from package.json -> author field? I don't want my email to be the Start Menu Category.

What am I missing? :)

[develar]

And you don't want to change author?

[framerate]

And you don't want to change author?

Package.json author I believe is following this format: https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json

I have:

    "author": {
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "name": "My Company"
    }

I would expect that to use My Company for the company name, copyright and start menu (instead of my personal email address) but maybe that's not the case?

[develar]

We parse author and use only name component. So, it is indicator that parsing is not correctly implemented. Will investigate.

[framerate]

I have a two package.json structure, author is in /... not sure whats in /app/ off hand, but maybe that's related

[develar]

Must be in the app package.json

[framerate]

Oh ok! Lastly, that seems a bit odd since ALL of the other electron-builder stuff is in /package.json right?

Why would this one feature use /app/? Or am I mistaken?

[develar]

Why would this one feature use /app/?

Because author belongs to your app, it is metadata.

electron-builder configuration it is just build configuration, not metadata.

Nevermind — now we check author in the dev metadata also :)

[develar]

You are not alone — #1881

[develar]

publisherName intended for code signature validation. Not as company name. As your issue is not about what to use, but misplaced author field, I am not going to think — should we use it as company name or not.

[framerate]

I think it's just a little confusing. We could fix it by updating documentation too, sure, but the idea of 99% of the time updating /package.json except this case where I need to update /app/package.json (in relation to electron builder). I would think there should be some (maybe new) config option in /package.json that is documented and if that doesn't exist, fall back to /app/package.json#author perhaps.

[develar]

Please try 19.27.6

[framerate]

Please try 19.27.6

Ok! What i the change? Is it just falling back to /package.json#author to find a name?

[develar]

Yes, fallback to dev metadata.