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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-26053

Qt 5 binary installer does not create Start Menu items on Windows 7

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      After completing installation of the package, there is no related group of shortcuts in the Start Menu.

      This error does not occur when isntalling the recently-released QtSDK 1.2.1 (which uses the same installer framework), so I assume that there is something missing from the configuration of this package rather than a bug in the installer framework.

      I think we want to stick as close as we can to the shortcuts in the Qt 4.x packages

      Qt 4.8.2 packages create the following shortcuts:

      • Example and Demos - <installdir>\bin\qtdemo.exe
      • Qt Assistant - <installdir>\bin\assistant.exe
      • Qt Designer - <installdir>\bin\designer.exe
      • Qt Linguist - <installdir>\bin\linguist.exe
      • Qt 4.8.2 Command Prompt - %COMSPEC% /k "<installdir>\bin\qtvars.bat"
      • Qt Readme - C:\Windows\notepad.exe <installdir>\README
      • qt.digia.com - should be qt-project.org in opensource packages
      • Uninstall Qt 4.8.2 Opensource
      • Visual Studio with Qt 4.8.2 - <installdir>\bin\qtvars.bat vsstart
      • Qt 4.8.2 (Build Debug Libraries) - <installdir>\bin\qtvars.bat compile_debug

      The last shortcut only appears in the MinGw package, while the second-last only appears in the msvc packages.

      For 5.0, <installdir>\bin will need to be something like <installdir>\Desktop\Qt\<version>\<compiler>\bin.

      The Uninstall shortcut should point to <installdir>\SDKMaintenanceTool.exe.

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