One other point (sorry for the last 'novel' of a reply...) I spent some time this weekend trying to determine if we could write a simple script to add the AppUserModelID to the shortcut - either Powershell, Windows Scripting, VBScript, Jscript, C#, whatever. The script would create the shortcut with the ID (and even do the registry tweaking - perhaps obviating addpm). Creating a shortcut in those languages Is not hard. But I did not find a way to add the ID without resorting to the same APIs we're looking at adding to addpm. Again, because most use of the AppUserModelID relies on the convention that a Windows installer is used to create the shortcut with the ID. So in the interest of not mixing in another technology, I still think updating addpm is the way to go right now. Maybe also making more of the behavior switch-driven.
-----Original Message----- From: help-emacs-windows-bounces+rob.davenport=us.abb....@gnu.org [mailto:help-emacs-windows-bounces+rob.davenport=us.abb....@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Eli Zaretskii Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 11:55 AM To: Rob Davenport <rob.davenp...@gmail.com> Cc: lek...@gmail.com; d...@austin.rr.com; help-emacs-windows@gnu.org Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Windows 10 Taskbar Behavior > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:02:34 -0400 > From: Rob Davenport <rob.davenp...@gmail.com> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>, "help-emacs-windows@gnu.org" > <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org>, > David Vanderschel <d...@austin.rr.com> > > OK. I figured my mystery out. I ran the process monitor when pinning and saw > Windows looking through the Start Menu for GNU Emacs.lnk. Does Windows look at that shortcut only if you invoke Emacs from the Start menu, or does it do that for all the other ways of invoking Emacs, like the cmd prompt, a desktop shortcut, the Run dialog, etc.? > So if we fix AddPM to put the app id into the shortcut it creates in the Start > Menu, Windows 10 should find it and create the correct shortcut when you pin > Emacs to the taskbar. If we find a way to do that from a MinGW-compiled C program, we will. Although I'd recommend that people stop using addpm altogether, and instead use the standard ways of adding Emacs to the Start menu, because addpm does more than just add a shortcut there. Or maybe send patches for making the other stuff optional, controlled by some command-line switches.
