Scoop: Windows 10 does not display nirlauncher/sysinternals shortcuts in folder

[rasa]

In Windows 7, the nirlauncher and sysinternals packages nicely appear as folders in the "Scoop Apps" folder. On Windows 10, the folder names are ignored, and each package's entries appear intermixed with the other non-folder apps. I spent a couple of hours trying to fix this, but eventually gave up. Here are three possible solutions:

1. Instead of creating the shortcut folder under Scoop Apps, we create it in the same folder the Scoop Apps folder is created in. Elegant, but will users expect this, since other apps get installed in Scoop Apps. Perhaps we should simply do away with Scoop Apps?

2. We put the app's shortcuts in %userprofile%\scoop\apps\app\current\shortcuts, and create a single shortcut in Scoop Apps that opens an Explorer window on that directory. Kludgy.

3. Instead of creating Nirlauncher\app shortcuts, we create zNirlaucher - app shortcuts. This forces these multiple-app packages to appear at the end of the Scoop Apps list. Kludgy.

Feedback?

[stkb]

Personally I've never really found it useful that the shortcuts are all put in the 'Scoop Apps' folder, so I'd do away with that.

However we'd then need to be careful that the scoop installer doesn't overwrite existing (non-scoop) shortcuts.

[r15ch13]

@stkb That's why they get put in the 'Scoop Apps' folder 😁
But does it really matter? Do you really search a program in the menu manually? Typing in a programs name is much faster.

[stkb]

@r15ch13 Yeah 99% of the time I type the name too rather than browse (so I'm not too bothered by this issue either) but I can see it being handy in some cases, especially with these packages.

To fix the collision issue, we could add a flag (probably in the description field) to shortcuts we create. Then if a shortcut already exists without our flag, we add " (Scoop)" to the name of our shortcut.

[rasa]

How about we set the folder name as a config option:

scoop config startmenu_folder “Scoop Apps”

and default to “” for new installs?

[Stanzilla]

Sounds good to me. The new convention is to not use folders in the start menu anyway.

[rasa]

The Windows 10 April 2018 update hides the Scoop Apps folder. See https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/issues/2233

[kodybrown]

I like the idea of a command line option/flag to indicate if I want Start Menu shortcuts added. Such as:

scoop install -add-shortcut 7zip