Create Start Shortcut for portable apps

[nicola02nb]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Some poratble apps may have a GUI, and it would ver usefull for users that aren't too much familiar with CLI, having a Start Menu shortcut created (Or even a desktop one..)

Proposed technical implementation details

My Idea is to add a tag into the installer schema for only portable apps, something like PortableCommandShortcut, where it's value may be:

• a string, if empty (by default) no shortcuts are created, else a shortcut named like the string value is created
• a boolean, if False (by default) no shortcuts are created, else a shortcut named like the PackageName value is created

I should point out that th shortcut will be linked to the main .exe of the package.

And add also :

• an interactive prompt to wingetcreate to help with the input of this value when a portable program is detected
• Shortcut deletion when program is uninstalled

Some more options that can be implemented:

• Creating the shortcut into a Start folder name like Publisher value
• If the Package contains more executable(neve found one atm), add the possibility to create multiple shortcuts with different names under a folder named like the PackageName value

[similar-issues-ai]

We've found some similar issues:

• Add start menu entries for portable applications #2299 , similarity score: 85%
• Implement automatic creation of shortcuts for portable programs #4185 , similarity score: 81%

If any of the above are duplicates, please consider closing this issue out and adding additional context in the original issue.

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[Trenly]

Duplicate of #2299

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