Fancy start tile on Windows (10 + possibly 8.1, would be nice to check).

Changes only affect Windows build / install / update.
Fixes #2372

.gitignore

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ public/built
 
 # Temp files
 .DS_Store
+temp.VisualElementsManifest.xml
 
 # electron-packager output dirs
 *-darwin-x64

app/windowsInit.js

@@ -7,21 +7,38 @@ const path = require('path')
 const childProcess = require('child_process')
 const spawn = childProcess.spawn
 const spawnSync = childProcess.spawnSync
+const execSync = childProcess.execSync
 const app = electron.app
 const appUserModelId = 'com.squirrel.brave.Brave'
 
-const getBraveDefaultsBinPath = () => {
+const getBraveBinPath = () => {
   const appPath = app.getPath('exe')
-  const appDir = path.dirname(appPath)
+  return path.dirname(appPath)
+}
+
+const getBraveDefaultsBinPath = () => {
+  const appDir = getBraveBinPath()
   return path.join(appDir, 'resources', 'braveDefaults.exe')
 }
 
+function CopyManifestFile () {
+  const versionedRoot = getBraveBinPath()
+  let updateRoot = versionedRoot.split('\\')
+  updateRoot.pop()
+  updateRoot = updateRoot.join('\\')
+  const cmd = 'copy "' + path.join(versionedRoot, 'Update.VisualElementsManifest.xml') + '" "' + updateRoot + '"'
+  execSync(cmd)
+}
+
  // windows installation events etc...
 if (process.platform === 'win32') {
   const shouldQuit = require('electron-squirrel-startup')
-
   const cmd = process.argv[1]
   if (cmd === '--squirrel-install' || cmd === '--squirrel-updated') {
+    // The manifest file is used to customize the look of the Start menu tile.
+    // This function copies it from the versioned folder to the parent folder
+    // (where the auto-update executable lives)
+    CopyManifestFile()
     // Launch defaults helper to add defaults on install
     spawn(getBraveDefaultsBinPath(), [], { detached: true })
   } else if (cmd === '--squirrel-uninstall') {

res/Update.VisualElementsManifest.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<Application xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+  <VisualElements
+    BackgroundColor="#404040"
+    ShowNameOnSquare150x150Logo="on"
+    ForegroundText="light"
+    Square70x70Logo="{{braveVersion}}\resources\start-tile-70.png"
+    Square150x150Logo="{{braveVersion}}\resources\start-tile-150.png" />
+</Application>

tools/buildPackage.js

@@ -99,12 +99,23 @@ cmds = cmds.concat([
     ' --version-string.FileDescription="Brave"'
 ])
 
+function BuildManifestFile () {
+  const fs = require('fs')
+  const fileContents = fs.readFileSync('./res/Update.VisualElementsManifest.xml', 'utf8')
+  const versionedFileContents = fileContents.replace(/{{braveVersion}}/g, 'app-' + VersionInfo.braveVersion)
+  fs.writeFileSync('temp.VisualElementsManifest.xml', versionedFileContents, 'utf8')
+}
+
 if (isLinux) {
   cmds.push('mv Brave-linux-x64/Brave Brave-linux-x64/brave')
   cmds.push('ncp ./app/extensions ' + path.join(buildDir, 'resources', 'extensions'))
 } else if (isDarwin) {
   cmds.push('ncp ./app/extensions ' + path.join(buildDir, 'Brave.app', 'Contents', 'Resources', 'extensions'))
 } else if (isWindows) {
+  BuildManifestFile()
+  cmds.push('move .\\temp.VisualElementsManifest.xml "' + path.join(buildDir, 'Update.VisualElementsManifest.xml') + '"')
+  cmds.push('copy .\\res\\start-tile-70.png "' + path.join(buildDir, 'resources', 'start-tile-70.png') + '"')
+  cmds.push('copy .\\res\\start-tile-150.png "' + path.join(buildDir, 'resources', 'start-tile-150.png') + '"')
   cmds.push('makensis.exe -DARCH=' + arch + ' res/braveDefaults.nsi')
   cmds.push('ncp ./app/extensions ' + path.join(buildDir, 'resources', 'extensions'))
 }