Shortcuts could be added to the application menu
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es20490446e@gmail.com,
Apr 1 2018
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: Go to the "more tools" menu. What is the expected behavior? What went wrong? There's only an "add to desktop" option. It would be quite more useful if instead the solution was more universal, and allowed to add shortcuts also to the application menu. This would allow turning any web page into an app in the menu instantly, very handy when dealing with productivity apps like Google Calendar. And the improvement could be as simple as renaming the option to "create shortcut..." and default the location to "~/.local/share/applications". This way even the most inexperienced user could add and remove those shortcuts from the menu. Did this work before? No Chrome version: 65.0.3325.181 Channel: stable OS Version: Flash Version:
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Apr 1 2018
I have realised that it already creates the entry both into the desktop and into the application menu, but the naming doesn't suggest that. Anyhow I believe the proposed solution is still better, as: - Desktop icons aren't normally used in Linux. - It tells newbies where they could remove the icon latter on.
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Apr 1 2018
Related: "Webpages could have the option to be run as separate instances" https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=827847
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Apr 1 2018
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Apr 3 2018
As per comment#0 this issue seems to be a feature request. Hence marking as Untriaged. Thanks!
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Apr 3 2018
Funny you should suggest using "Create shortcut..." for the menu item. Two days before your request I landed https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/984916 which does just that.
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Apr 3 2018
Oh, I see you have been faster! ;) But: - Does it create the shortcut to the desktop too? - Is there some obvious way to remove the shortcuts for inexperienced users?
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Apr 3 2018
> Does it create the shortcut to the desktop too? Yes (I assume you mean on Windows) it creates a shortcut on the desktop and the start menu. > Is there some obvious way to remove the shortcuts for inexperienced users? Both shortcuts are removed if you go to chrome:apps (the new tab page has a link to this by default), right click the shortcut and choose "Remove from Chrome".
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Apr 3 2018
I think in Linux it would be better that the shortcut isn't created in the desktop, as these days is rare to find shortcuts in Linux desktops. And it has a logic. Which is that it's simpler to look for applications in the menu, the dock or the dash. Meanwhile looking into the desktop needs you to minimise all windows, and usually the organisation is messy. I even think that having shortcuts for Windows is bad. It would be cleaner to have them in the start menu, or pinned in the bar. But since there are already too many things wrong with Windows I won't discuss that :P I believe that as a rule of thumbs in user interface design is better to show only what's used right now, or constantly, and hide everything else. Having shortcuts on the desktop is rather the oposite. |
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Comment 1 by es20490446e@gmail.com
, Apr 1 2018