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Dev channel update to 77.0.197.1 is live
josh_bodner So now that you PiecesOf8
josh_bodner wrote:
New features and behavior:
- Changed the ability to pin a website to the desktop into the ability to pin a website to the taskbar.
Now that this "feature" has been introduced, how does one pin a website to the desktop? Being able to create a shortcut on the desktop was far more useful than being able to pin to the taskbar because the shortcut could be moved to different locations.
Why was the ability to pin a website to the desktop removed? Who asked for it to be removed?
PiecesOf8 while I was the one asking for an ability to pin the website to the taskbar, and I'm rather happy about its implementation (with one glitch yet -- the taskbar button is not protruding itself, when it's launched), but I didn't think it would be implemented in "Pin to Desktop" expense. I hope you guys will get it back with the next release. I hope both are going to be possible I the final version.
Mantvydas
Not likely to return; was not supposed to be there in the 1st place and they fixed their goof. It has never existed, not in our browsers nor from Start nor from an Applications window. And putting things all over the desktop has never been encouraged. It does, however, make good sense to, actually, pin things where they can, actually, be seen & easily accessed whilst working or doing things on that same desktop.
Cheers,
Drew
PiecesOf8 Yes, why shouldn't pinning to taskbar and desktop both be options? And Start menu, too. A user may want to pin a website to any of these three places, depending on his or her own usage or or workflow system. In sum, you Edge should let you pin a website or web app anywhere you can pin a Windows app.
JordanQ
Rt Clk on any app listed on Start & there is NO pin to desktop! And here's all the apps & there is no pin to desktop for any
Putting shortcuts for stuff all over a desktop is not pinning, it's creating (silly, unnecessary) shortcuts. Shortcuts are not pinning. Pinning is not creating shortcuts.
Cheers,
Drew
PiecesOf8 You can still drag the icon in the URL bar to the desktop to pin it.
Craig Chambers
Craig, again, that is not pinning. That is creating & putting a Shortcut on the desktop; silly as that is. We don't pin to desktop hence it not existing in IE or EdgeHTML (nor Edge C).
Shortcuts are just road-signs or billboards spoiling the scenery and they are not pinning.
Cheers,
Drew
- I have one Reference folder that has over 4,000 links. Every one pinned to Desktop prior to its's relocation to the proper sub-folder. I hope Pin to Desktop is added back to the menu, not in place of "Pin to Taskbar" but in addition to.
You can always just drag a favorite to the desktop. Personally I never use this feature, but find the "Install this site as an app" feature to be INCREDIBLY useful, because then you can pin it wherever you want...taskbar, start menu, desktop...and it runs as a separate app in the taskbar.
davidsteltz
Certainly beats dropping a shortcut on the desktop which, is what dragging the Fav, also, does. Adds another reason to why Pin to desktop doesn't exist/isn't needed.
The basic here is, there are heaps of cool ways to do or access things in Win10 making shortcuts & desktop shortcuts rarely necessary.
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Hopefully people can have a sense of humour over this one. This is the blurb from the site to app page. Talks about pinning to taskbar for future convenience AND doesn't, even, mention the desktop. Not that it should be surprising. And it's humourous having icon on the same surface where one is doing things with open windows... the taskbar can ALWAYS be seen. One can only click on things one can, actually, see 😉
Cheers,
Drew
- agree, use pin to desktop regularly. ideally like both options
PiecesOf8 Pin it to the taskbar, then go to
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar (https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/post/6490193)and drag the icon to the desktop.
Agreed. There are two issues here for me:
1. I don't want to clutter my taskbar with pinned sites, but I do want to pin sites to Start or Desktop where I can arrange and group them as I like.
2. When a site is pinned to the taskbar, the site still opens up as a tab in whatever edge window is currently open, and not in its own window associated with the pinned taskbar button! For me, the entire point of pinning a site to start/taskbar is that I can treat it as an independent app, separate from the other browser tabs I may have open. Chrome implements this via its 'Open as window' open when creating a shortcut, and it is literally the only reason I keep Chrome installed - to be able to treat web-apps as desktop apps, and not tabs that get lost amongst all the other stuff I'm browsing.
- Have you tried using the Apps feature in the menu? You can pin a site as an app, and it will open that site in its own window, without the address bar, toolbars, etc.
dhirensham
One does not want a cluttered desktop, either. Nor is there any time enough sites would be pinned to the taskbar to clutter it. Pinning is not something that begets clutter; if so, it's being misused. (And, bonus) One can, actually, see a taskbar whilst working & windows open.
You're #2: This is normal, proper behavior. IF the browser window is, already, open a pinned site will add into it. IF the browser is not, already, open, then the pinned site will (newly) open the browser. There is nothing wrong or amiss here, the behavior IS correct. Certainly, it is identical to Edge. This is the same behavior that, already, exists. It is not peculiar to Edge C. It, actually, should be acutely familiar. Oh, btw, right now, they DO have it going to both places simultaneously, Taskbar & Start, just like you want. It's not the way Edge works, now, but, it does suit you 😉. Sites do not normally pin themselves to Start. That should NOT be familiar. Pinning sites 'permanently' isn't, really, by design... mixing apples & oranges... falls in the Favorites category, treated in that light. Sites are saved as Favs. There is a (big) difference betwixt saving & pinning. Or one pins super-favorites which, should be few. There is no reason a Win 10 taskbar should become cluttered. And desktops aren't a storage place.
As an aside, a nice practice is not to have desktop icons showing; there is no need. What few there are can be accessed via the Desktop toolbar. Can't justify covering a nice desktop. Also, there folks like myself using an Applications window, an example ⬇, @ the taskbar & not using Start, at all. Also, is a snip of Start; might notice the absence of something. The Dev Update should not be there. It's from testing Pin to taskbar to see if they had fixed this, yet. Was doing it before this Build, as well.
Cheers,
Drew- Try the Google extension OneTab to keep all needed sites in one tab.
dhirensham You can use the feature "Install this Site as an app" in the Apps menu. That will give you a Desktop icon and it opens as a single "program" in the taskbar.
