288589 - Thunderbird Desktop Namespace Icon

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050327 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050327 Thunderbird/1.0+

There is a way to create an IE style desktop icon that would improve
Thunderbird's accessibility for end users. This is a campanion bug to bug 264889
that has been filed for Firefox.

For more details, see:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=138033
http://gemal.dk/blog/2004/11/05/firefox_thunderbird_and_sunbird_desktop_shortcuts/

If implemented it would be good to be able to show or hide the icon per user
under Thunderbird's options. The attached file contains the registry entries
where that is controlled.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Michael]

Attachment: vb script file to create desktop icon

Comment 2

[Michael]

Attachment: vb script file to remove desktop icon

Comment 3

[Worcester12345]

Request blocking since a patch exists.

Comment 4

[u88484]

Why the need for this? Just choose not to create a desktop icon when installing.

Comment 5

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Why the need for this? Just choose not to create a desktop icon when
> installing.
> 
At one point, this functionality was not working. It may be now, so maybe WORKSFORME? I'll leave that up to the bug reporter.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

perhaps this should depend on bug 264889?