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Muhammad Umer
Muhammad Umer

Reputation: 18097

is there any api to make a shortcut of chrome standalone app to a desktop

normally what happens when you install an app is that it creates a shortcut from where you can launch it on desktop or start menu. However, chrome apps for now are places in chrome app launcher that is packed with all other chrome apps. It's all good and fine. But is there a way to place my app on desktop with user's consent if need be.

There is a way to do it manually. Like if user right clicks on the app in chrome app launcher and click create shortcut which has checkboxes showing places where shortcuts are going to be created ex: desktop, startmenu...

Without a icon of your app on desktop it still doesn't feel like a standalone app.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1128

Answers (2)

user3701366
user3701366

Reputation: 474

You can check out the chrome.management.createAppShortcut API that is added recently. Now it's only available on the dev channel:

chrome.management.createAppShortcut("app_id");

Upvotes: 2

Ben Wells
Ben Wells

Reputation: 1892

There is no way to do this. Users can also drag their app from the app launcher to the desktop to create a shortcut.

An API to prompt the user for this isn't something we're likely to support. Personally I think users would find it annoying, as it is simple and easy to create shortcuts where they want.

If you disagree please file a feature request at http://crbug.com. It would be there is some action we could take, e.g. educate users better that they can create shortcuts, but crbug.com is a better place to discuss.

Upvotes: 0

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