Make it easy to configure the app's homepage for Windows installers

[sschuberth]

Discussed in #9943

^{Originally posted by sschuberth June 2, 2024}
Hi there, is it currently possible to specify an app's homepage as part of installer metadata? Looking at https://tauri.app/v1/api/config/#windowsconfig and https://tauri.app/v1/api/config/#wixconfig it does not seem it's possible. I'm specifically looking for doing that for MSI, so that the app's homepage shows up in Windows' uninstall dialog.

The goal would be to make configuring the app's homepage easy and independent of the installer backend used (MSI or NSIS) without the user needing to deals with implementation-specific concepts like WiX fragments.

[amrbashir]

I am not sure where is this homepage will be rendered, can you show an example?

[sschuberth]

Unfortunately, Windows' built-in "Add or remove programs" control panel indeed does not seem to show the "About URL" by default (and I couldn't make it to), but third-party uninstallers like UninstallView do, along with a bunch of more metadata:

[sschuberth]

Thanks a lot @amrbashir for addressing this so quickly!