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A7exSchin opened this issue Sep 21, 2023 · 5 comments · Fixed by #2671
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Please confirm these before moving forward

  • I have searched for my feature proposal and not found a work-in-progress/duplicate/resolved/discarded issue.
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Describe the improvement

Add a single menu item to the right click menu of installed software, that lets me go to the respective directory the software is isntalled in.

If this is not possible, alternatively it would be helpful to document the installation path in the FAQ for various sources.

Describe how this improvement could help users.

Right now it is very troublesome to find the location, where stuff is installed. For example installing maven via chocolatey results in the path C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\WingetUI\choco-cli\lib. But this path is already different when installing stuff via winget.

Adding the menu item improves fluidity and streamlines workflow.

@A7exSchin A7exSchin added the enhancement An improvement to WingetUI label Sep 21, 2023
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Would be a possible temporary fix for #1036

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I'm not sure if this is quite doable, since not all packages do offer this ability, but I am going to give it a go

@marticliment marticliment added this to the Features milestone Sep 21, 2023
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@marticliment thanks for the quick answer! I just realized that "Go to Source" is a bit misleading. More like a "Go to Install Location".

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ppvnf commented Sep 21, 2023

For Winget there is an open issue about this microsoft/winget-cli#2298

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Its actually quite important, since not all Apps are shown in the Start menu or windows search after the installation.
(I'm looking at you QEMU,...)

@marticliment marticliment changed the title [ENHANCEMENT] Add "Go to source" button in rightclick [ENHANCEMENT] Add "Go to install location" button in rightclick Oct 22, 2023
@marticliment marticliment changed the title [ENHANCEMENT] Add "Go to install location" button in rightclick [ENHANCEMENT] Add "Go to install location" button in rightclick + show the path of installation Nov 1, 2023
@marticliment marticliment removed this from the Features milestone Oct 20, 2024
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