I'm sorry, I don't understand this. Dragging test.ly on the desktop to
the LilyPond icon on the desktop fails to produce the PDF output. Both
on Windows 10 and 11.
What I also completely fail to understand is given that this has
apparently never worked, why the instructions for 2.22 stable release
say to do this, and that people are advised explicitly to choose the
stable release if they want, well, stability and presumably correct
operation.
Now it's all very well saying the new version has dropped the app
because it was limited, but it was good enough for a very long time, an
also, obviously, this is not mentioned in the manual for the stable release.
Are we still updating 2.22? Can I volunteer to remove that section from
the installation page?
To a large extent I don't care. I don't use Windows for LilyPond. But I
am sure there are many who do. It's a bad UX to have the first steps in
the instructions fail. It's enough for people to remove the program
right away, if that's the opening overture.
As to using a different file manager, well the whole point is that this
is a problem on the desktop, and it's convenient to have working files
on the desktop for quick and easy access.
Andrew
Aaron Hill wrote on 5/07/2022 8:41 AM:
The UAC limitation you refer to is irrelevant, as that only concerns
cross-application behavior where one process has a lower privilege
level. There would be no such problem when you are dragging and
dropping files within the shell itself, as would be the case when
dropping onto a desktop shortcut.
